Expose Yourself
by Scott Bradley
by Scott Bradley
When I was a Christian I would recommend to other Christians that they see two documentaries. One was of an Appalachian snake-handler revival meeting. (“You shall lift up serpents and they shall not harm you.”) The preacher gets bitten by a rattlesnake and things take a bad turn.
The other film is about Marjoe, a Christian healer since he was a mere sprout. He teaches a film crew how to behave themselves, and then they record his farcical antics — healing, slaying in the Spirit...the usual hysterics — while he laughs and jokes behind the scenes.
Why would I have recommended this? It seemed like a good reality check.
To those who today dabble in ‘cooler’ forms of spirituality I would recommend exposing oneself to the New Age section of one’s local bookstore — the subsections and titles should be enough. What is to learn? I guess that would depend on you.
You can check out Scott's other miscellaneous writings here.
There is silly false spirituality everywhere. (But that doesn't negate the spirit or invalidate our search for meaning.)
ReplyDeleteI was on a retreat a few years ago with a woman who had pictures of whales with whom she had swum ("Look at the love in their eyes!"); believed that Mary Magdalene was 630 years old because this information had been "channeled" to someone who in turn told her; had personal relationships with Kuan Yin and Madam Pele, and kept finding "orbs" in her night-time digital photos.
"There's a seeker born every minute!" :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_You_Know_Is_Wrong