Plato's Playground
Wow!
That is a work of the highest literary quality. I will try to find ways of encouraging more people to read it, and others of your writings.
"That where it can be brooked we’d best go,
If we hope not to walk these lands alone."
the name of the place, as it were, is after all, Dialogue......
we have pretty well worked out that atheists and deists, theists-- generally speaking-- religious people, can respect each other's positions on beliefs and agree on many public policies. current events have rendered our differences to near insignificance. our discussion is valuable to me for spurring me to think more critically and speak out more, to call and write my congressman and senators.
i know. small stuff. but more and more powerful as more and more of us do it.
thank you, speechless, for expressing so eloquently and poetically what i can understand, but which i would struggle to say.
Lovely piece Speechless. Thankyou. I like this site. I'm not sure how it's going to go. I'm new to blogging thing so I'm still sitting back and just reading it, taking it in. I hope you continue it.
I want to continue. It's difficult to find the way, we are speaking in such different terms. Once again, the invitation for other posters is still open.
I really don't belong here....
Cervantes urged us to visit here so strongly last night, that I did come and read some past discussions. I sure missed some interesting exchanges!
I tell people that I was born allergic to religion. I had been dragged weekly to church as a young child, and was forced to go to Sunday school. I loathed every single minute of it, from the youngest, preschool age. It wasn't until I was in my forties that I realized that the Sunday school teachers must have hoped we'd believe what they were telling us.
That said, my oldest friend is a former Catholic turned Born Again Christian who now is a missionary in Manila. We carefully avoid discussing religion, until recently when she mistakenly pushed several of my buttons. The upshot of the ensuing discussion was that she truly has no idea whatsoever what is going on in politics. She does not know about the extremism or hypocrisy of the Religious Right. She hears their appeals to Christian values; she does not read, nor does she know how to find, the sources we rely on for a more balanced view of Christianity in politics today.
I imagine that she is much more typical of silent majority Christian fundamentalists: She is genuine, big-hearted, does not despise people of other religions (whatever she may think of their religions), and abhors violence, hypocrisy, and greed as much as the next person (probably more, given her chosen "career" path). But her world doesn't extend far beyond her church community, so she views the world through a somewhat distorted lens.
Fundamentalist Protestant Churches have a cultish quality to them. I noticed it not long after my friend was "born again." Another close friend, who comes from a family of liberal Methodist theologians and who grew up in rural Georgia, speaks forcefully of the cult aspect of fundamentalism. Fundies live in closed communities, where friends, social activities, education, etc. are all within their church's control. I suspect this is why we don't hear them speaking out against the extremists who are making headlines these days. They don't have access to alternative viewpoints. When my friend is back on furlough for months at a time, I'll see her for maybe a day and a half; the rest of her time is taken up by church and (likewise Born Again) family.
Sorry to go on for so long. These are just thoughts that arose reading some threads. I'm really out of my depth here.
Ugh. I failed to close my italics. Sorry.
C. Corax---thanks for the informative coment. you are most surely not out of your depth here. the closed and cultish nature of fundamental protestant sects may be why we don't hear more from them.
Say I'm glad this poem speaks to you and of us to some degree. Not sure where we go from here. Sometimes it's just nice to hold hands in the dark, isn't it?
Yes, I was remiss not to say to Speechless how much I love the poem. That should have been the first thing I wrote, because it was the first thing on my mind.
Right C., I wanted people to read the poem, just for its own sake. I'm glad you read more of this blog while you were here.
Speechless, how much of your work has been published? You are obviously a poet of significance.
You are obviously a poet of significance. Those are words I never thought I'd hear, music to my ears
how much of your work has been published? 
None. Just one of those flowers blooming on the ocean's floor...
And thanks again.
Well, we need to do something about that.
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