Monday 15 March 2010

Disorganised religion

Young Keith says he's become disenchanted and disillusioned with Organised religion.  The rest of us say that "disenchanted" and "disillusioned" mean almost exactly the same think, so he is merely using flash words to make himself sound intellectual.
But be that as it may, he's decided to do something about it.  He feels the need to get back to a simpler, more spontaneous time when the Spirit moved as he/she/it would and the follower followed the prompting.  "Like a tuned aeolian harp in a gentle zephyr" was how he put it.  Which we thought was quite nicely put. 
Hence this morning's exercise in "Disorganised Religion".  He turned up at the Moot House with a copy of the "Wee Worship Book" and some pebbles.  Meanwhile, only two hours later, Stacey Bushes alarmed the Watchers in the Watching Hut by arriving with a branch of ivy, a banjo and a small earth-moving machine.  And Chesney Wold appeared in the Dining Room at two o'clock with an Enya CD and the Book of Common Prayer.
Personally I would say it hasn't worked too well so far.  But Young Keith says I'm just old and out of touch with where the "kids" are in the worship arena.  Well we'll see.

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