Frank:

I honor the comfort you find in prayer, and I offer any comfort I can by being kind -- when I AM being kind. Which is less constant than it should be, I admit.

The line I draw is not against any person's beliefs, but against the need to impose them. OVertly, the way Jehovah's Witnesses try to do, or covertly, which is done (in one way) by selecting terminology intended to be overpowering, freighted with towering meanings, but which for many of us are without experiential or discoverable referents.   

Whatever God may be I am pretty darned sure he is not the maelstrom maker of the Old Testament, or the old man with beard drawn by Michaelangelo, or anything male or embodied in any dimension with a form. So my hackles go up at this assertive, insistant vocabulary and the invisible but telling consequences, intellectually, of taking it on.

But I wish you and Slag and Ted all the blessings that can be had, and the joy of your own personal truths.


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