I fall in love with light-touch religious and metaphysical shows like Joan of Arcadia and Wonderfalls. I like it slightly better when the messages from the ALL come from a smushed plastic lion than when they come from God in a janitor suit, but anything is better than the traditional thunderer in the clouds. I like very much the minimalization of the religious intuition: the world makes more sense than it should, is better than one would expect, in particular seems more personal than it has any right to be. There is some sort of odd fit between my life and what seems to be needed out there. It is almost as if something is talking to me -- god as a cosmic mouse in the woodwork.
When one tries to follow up on that intuition, one finds one's options limited, mostly, to detailed views of what it all means -- God's purpose for your life -- that go way beyond the intuition. I don't like being put in front of the choice: give up the intuition about the cosmic mouse, or buy into Left Behind or Baltimore Catechism. It isn't lost on me that Bush is sort of acting out episode one of the end times, with a lot of midwestern kids and mideastern civilians as extras.
But I don't want to give up the cosmic mouse, either.
Posted by shea0017 at March 1, 2005 11:34 AM