"I even began to feel that contemporary literature and art were these amazing distraction mechanisms, that they didn't really deal with any kind of spiritual dimension of the human existence or even the dangers we were facing as a species." (Daniel Pinchbeck, Interview, June/July 2009)
I had wanted to write weekly posts about the side conversations that my wife and I have during Sunday school, but she no longers talks to me during that time. This is because she's in a different room from me, teaching three and four year olds now. But I can still share the things I hear in Sunday school that have nothing to do with the gospel. Here's three:
"Women in the work force are to blame for rising real estate prices." This is an exact quote from my female teacher. She claimed to have been a feminist-minded college student in the '60s but now she "can see secular advantages to mothers staying at home." I can't even remember what the lesson was about when this came up, it was a few months back.
"The higher the taxation of a country, the lower the spirituality of the people." Different teacher quoted here - this one's male and happens to be an immigration lawyer by profession. At the time he claimed there were studies that proved this, but gave no citation. Yesterday, I approached him to ask where he was introduced to that concept, and he told me it came from conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager.
"Legalizing marijuana will only increase deaths from DUIs." Our class discussion went from alchohol in the media to vegetarianism to drug use. I raised my hand to make a comment about eating as "close to the vine" as possible, but as you can probably tell, substantial tangents had already eaten all our time. I just can't wait for next Sunday!
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I would love to be plopped down in a room like that, however, I think I would spontaneously explode if I entered.
Tell me more, tell me more! Like does he have a car!
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