Chuckle. No, I don't like to tick boxes (or fit neatly into them) in any sense. Existentialist. Nope. I don't like labels, because that makes the assumption I'd fit in the box with that label. Well... you can label me Fir Darrig (I quite like being the rat-boy) or disreputable monkey. I will accept those cheerfully. And I also have very little time for organised religion (which seems to benifit the organisers, strangely) -- or any other kind of 'uniform' which does away with the need to be responsible for and think about your own ethical and moral decisions. Did you ever read C.S Lewis's LAST BATTLE, in which he rather savages 'organised religion' and makes the point it is how you have lived, not the form of religion you followed that god would judge you on? If there is an omnipotent being, surely he could hardly do anything else? Shrug. I have little trouble in telling the 'good' people from ring-pieces, and it's not the basis of the religion they profess. (I can think of Eric for eg, who is a an athiest, but is more 'christian' in what he does than most 'christian' people I know) It'd be a pretty feeble second rate discount deity who couldn't do a better job than me.
Actually if there is one christian hymn I really like it's that "And the creed and colour and the name won't matter, where you there?" That always seemed a better measure of someone's worth than strict observance of not working on a Sunday.
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Date: 2005-12-26 09:47 am (UTC)Actually if there is one christian hymn I really like it's that "And the creed and colour and the name won't matter, where you there?" That always seemed a better measure of someone's worth than strict observance of not working on a Sunday.