A view on religion.

[dragoness_e]

On re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia last year, I realized that my childhood understanding of Christianity--the one that stayed with me for life--was shaped by C. S. Lewis. Not my childhood Catholic Sunday school classes, or my Catholic elementary school religion classes. They taught me the rituals, the traditions, the things to be afraid of--but C. S. Lewis and Narnia taught me what it was really all about.

Thank you, C.S. Lewis.

There's another man who summed up the whole relationship between God and man for me in just a few short lyrics:

Now you got yourself two good hands
And when your brother is troubled you've gotta
reach out your hand for him 'cause that's what it's there for

And when your heart is troubled you've gotta reach out
your other hand, reach it out to the Man up there
'Cause that's what He's there for

-- Neil Diamond, "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"

Comments

[nightwind69.livejournal.com]

*nods* I have found, in my spiritual wanderings, that it's usually better to listen to individuals (even musicians!) than it is to listen to the established ecclesiatical hierarchy. I'm not sure why it works that way; you'd think that those in the hierarchy would have some wisdom. But I guess maybe the "system" pounds the wisdom out of everything, you know? Whereas your average person on the street, uninhibited by rules and regs, is often a fount of wisdom, indeed...