[March 2001 journal entry]
I vigorously/relentlessly examine the foundation of my thought. Many seem to neglect the foundation of their thought, analogous to renters or negligent house owners. The first house we considered buying in Vermont was a beautiful Swiss chalet style house. We quickly/easily envisioned ourselves settling into each room. However, when I crawled under the house, I found on one side of the house’s foundation a crack running through the foundation blocks and I found on the opposite side of the house’s foundation the upper half of the foundation blocks off-set three inches from the lower half of the foundation blocks. We did not buy the house due to the damaged and faulty foundation. By analogy -- while lively theological conversations (from fundamentalist across the theological spectrum to liberal) go on in the fireplace room, in the library, in the kitchen, in the bedrooms, on the balcony, . . . of the ‘religious’ house, underneath I find an unreliable foundation. I do not think very many crawl under the ‘religious’ house or, if they do, I do not think they stay long enough to be irreversibly affected by what is found/seen.