i recently got into a interesting dicussion with a christian youth pastor at a christian event called kingdom bound my loving friends dragged me. he said to me, jesus loves you, and i said whos jesus.. o i think he just served me my taco bell. we eventually got past taco bell (4th meal...) and i asked him if he believed in the bible literally, he said, o absolutly, so then i said are you catholic? and he said no. then i went on the explain the catholic belief in the eucharist (spelling?) and asked him he believed that when he took communion he was truly eating the body of christ, not just bread and grape juice. he no of course its not the body of christ. but the passage in which the first communion takes place, jesus saves, quite literally, this is my body, take and eat. so of course a rather confused youth pastor backtracked saying that some things are symbolic while others are literal. im not sure you can believe both about the bible, it either has to be all literal, or all symbolic since i dont really believe in god and dont really care that much what he says. i think its symbolic, a rather well written nathaniel hawthorn novel.
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Non ducor, DUCO
I wish on shooting stars
I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter" |