[November 1999 journal entry]
During a Monday afternoon discussion with a senior Presbyterian USA pastor, he indicated he stays “in a love-hate association with the institutional church because the church I criticize gave me my way of seeing the world”. I countered that my experience in/with ‘the world’ (i.e., seen ‘face to face’ rather than through the prism/filter of ‘religion’) has reshaped and continues to reshape how I see and determines what filters through to me from ‘religion’. The anchors or roots of my ‘non-religious’ approach to living and thinking are outside the ‘religious’ sphere.
During a Monday afternoon discussion with a senior Presbyterian USA pastor, he indicated he stays “in a love-hate association with the institutional church because the church I criticize gave me my way of seeing the world”. I countered that my experience in/with ‘the world’ (i.e., seen ‘face to face’ rather than through the prism/filter of ‘religion’) has reshaped and continues to reshape how I see and determines what filters through to me from ‘religion’. The anchors or roots of my ‘non-religious’ approach to living and thinking are outside the ‘religious’ sphere.
