A moment of pious introspection, before I continue... |
And I might throw down the gauntlet and ask, how many churches*** can a young man recently graduated from high-school walk into and say, “I need a job, and a roof over my head,” and expect direct help on both those fronts? Since it’s my religion**** we’re discussing, lemme tell you: the percentages are pretty low. Kids get better help with these baseline concerns when they approach Mormons, Jews and Muslims.
Out here in the Wild West, “Christian community” is, by and large, ersatz community, with little beyond worship committees and Bible studies and the occasional “think tank” to distinguish it from bourgeois “secular” communities and their book clubs — that is what I might say, were I to build up a proper head of steam. Now, you might derive your life’s purpose from studying the Bible, provided you’ve got an adroit buttinsky in the room. But (I might add) if all you have when you wake up in the morning is a part-time job pushing carts across a parking lot, your sacred sense of purpose is going to erode at a dependably steady rate.
And I might also say . . . well, no. I’m done speculating on myself.
...gotta catch my breath... |
Now, if you’re going to accuse our “secular” state of failing the mentally ill, that is a matter worth discussing and taking action on. But “lack of purpose”? Get your Burkean hooey outta my in-box.
*I’m not going to point fingers, but the guy who wrote it is DUTCH!
**DUTCH, most of 'em.
***Of DUTCH origin, or otherwise.
****Which, in my case I will admit, does indeed have DUTCH roots, but of the shabby, Friesland variety.
2 comments:
It sounds like the one thing we can all agree on is that society's problems are inevitably caused by people whose belief systems are different from mine.
But mostly by the DUTCH!
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