Unorganized
Religion
The most significant religious events
recounted in the Bible do not occur in ‘temples made with hands.’ The most
important religion in that book is unorganized and is sometimes profoundly
disruptive of organization. From Abraham to Jesus, the most important people
are not priests but shepherds, soldiers, property owners, workers, housewives,
queens and kings, manservants and maidservants, fishermen, prisoners, whores,
even bureaucrats. The great visionary encounters did not take place in temples
but in sheep pastures, in the desert, in the wilderness, on mountains, on the
shores of rivers and the sea, in the middle of the sea, in prisons…. Religion,
according to this view, is less to be celebrated in rituals than practiced in
the world.
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