Pyat dumps on spirituality, while he's being dour.

[pyat]

Too many Protestants are stupid!

DO you hear me, Protestants? A lot of you are dumb. And annoying. And boring. When pyat calls something boring, you KNOW it's boring.

I can't have a decent religious discussion with anyone I know in the real world, except my wife. All the other Protestants I know are either poorly-informed about their own religion, or suffer from knee-jerk political conservatism that somehow has infected their faith, or both.

I cannot think of a single person at my church (who is not directly related to me) with whom I would want to spend an evening. Yes, many of them are nice people, but they are not any nicer than sitting at home alone with a burrito.

(Wait... wait. That's not true. I like Ron Sharegan and his wife. He was my boss when he I worked at the Soup Van, and he's well-informed, open-minded, devout, and puts his money where his mouth is in terms of adding works to faith. Aside from them, I can't think of ANYONE.)

Of course, to be utterly fair, I can't think of a single person at my church who would want to spend an evening with me.

Wiccans and Pagans of various sorts tend to be more fun to be around because they often seem to share some of my other interests, but almost all the really serious Pagans I've met seemed to have something very wrong with them.

It's as though you need a sense of humour to talk about casting spells and performing ceremonies, and the minute you lose that, you've wandered into The Land of Mental Illness.

And even then, I'd rather listen to someone natter on about... about... crazy... Moon... stuff... than listen to someone at my church give their opinion of the Book of Revelations.

And another thing, I really hate Praise and Worship quartets, even though I actually happen to like singing and clapping. What's up with that?

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should have thought about more exceptions before writing, or limited to my church.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I think if you'd said Evangelicals, rather than Protestants, it would have been closer to the mark, but there are still exceptions, albeit ones who may have trouble speaking out.