Spiritual reading list
Well, sort of.
I’ve been fascinated lately by some posts from a couple different regular reads of mine. They are all on the subject of God and/or religion.
A slew of these posts emanate from the furiously-typing hands of Fred Clark at Slacktivist. They all have to do with what many perceive as the strong bias of evangelicalism against homosexuality. While many in the evangelical community do differ on the subject, and broad brush strokes often do injustice to any large segment of people, Fred has an excellent series on the perception of evangelicals as “hating” gays. What he’s really examining, for those who look closer, is why homosexuality is treated in the Christian community as so much more abhorrent than the smaller sins like dishonesty, theft and marital infidelity (to name just a few). (The parts, so far are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.)
The other standout post on the subject of God is from the oft insightful Qazse, who wrote a brief piece of poetry called “The God Cage.” Having interacted on a few different virtual occasions with the pseudononymous blogger, I’m confident his spiritual expressions are anything but flip. This poem is a perfectly concise example of those expressions.
