I'm sorry to take such unfettered delight in your suffering, but your entire story about the STUPID song was SO FUNNY that I was seized with increasingly hysterical laughter, and, had there been any bare floor space in my toxic dump of a cube, I would have been rolling around on it! I am (HA HA) really, REALLY sorry for you! No(snork) seriously, I totally sympathize - I have been the victim of some pretty awful music myself (hearing and performing) by choir directors that should have known better!
As for that memorable passage (that totally leapt out at me) from Small Gods (I owe you the world, again, for turning me on to that thankyouthankyou such pitch-perfect performances and overall tone, as you said): well, that is the great struggle, isn't it? To disentangle the great and true principles that the religion was founded upon, as well as your own personal relationship with God, from an organization administrated and peopled by imperfect humans who make a LOT of mistakes, and from all the ordinances and formalities (yes, as a Mormon, even if it all makes sense to ME I know I live in a comlplex glass house myself and shoudn't throw stones, even in jest). Not always easy, and sometimes I find myself wishing to escape the darkness and the weight of the shell, forgetting or even doubting what's inside, which is why I no longer tut disapprovingly at others who choose to leave organized religion - I may think they're missing out, but I understand better why they might make that choice. I didn't know you sung in a choir.
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Date: 2006-03-13 03:18 pm (UTC)As for that memorable passage (that totally leapt out at me) from Small Gods (I owe you the world, again, for turning me on to that thankyouthankyou such pitch-perfect performances and overall tone, as you said): well, that is the great struggle, isn't it? To disentangle the great and true principles that the religion was founded upon, as well as your own personal relationship with God, from an organization administrated and peopled by imperfect humans who make a LOT of mistakes, and from all the ordinances and formalities (yes, as a Mormon, even if it all makes sense to ME I know I live in a comlplex glass house myself and shoudn't throw stones, even in jest). Not always easy, and sometimes I find myself wishing to escape the darkness and the weight of the shell, forgetting or even doubting what's inside, which is why I no longer tut disapprovingly at others who choose to leave organized religion - I may think they're missing out, but I understand better why they might make that choice.
I didn't know you sung in a choir.