Today’s Quote 6/12/07

Annie Dillard
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a package tour of the Absolute?…On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs,sufficiently sensible of conditions.  Does anyone have the foggiest idea of what sort of power we so blithely invoke?  Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it?  The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets,mixing up a batch of tnt to kill a Sunday morning.  It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets.  Ushers shoud issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews.  For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.