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“Does anyone have the foggiest idea of what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should wear crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews.”
by Anne Dillard in Teaching a Stone to Talk
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Try her other books. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is terrific.
I want to read that!
I must need more context to get this quote!
Do we really understand how earth shattering the Truth is?