I don't really feel that way, but wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. Is anyone reading along with this book (Soul Cravings)? I'm still really digging it. Hey, I got an email yesterday from Don Miller's organization that said he was making a movie out of Blue Like Jazz! Wow, that's pretty exciting. I wonder if they'll re-enact the scene of the confessional at Reed College. Steve Taylor and Ben Forgotlastname are making it, adapting it from the book's themes. hmmm.
McManus talks about vampires and their life of being undead, which is really being un-alive. In Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, Brad Pitt (as Louis) relates that his love died with "her" (a lost love named Claudia). He thus gave up on life and no longer really lived. In fact, he preyed on those who crossed his path. In Entry #4 the author relates how we're all living by faith. Both reason and faith, though they are often considered as juxtapositions, are trying to make sense of things. They come to different conclusions, but ask the same question: What is true?
In Entry #5 Erwin (I like that name, it reminds me of Fletch) reasons that the originators of myth and various religions might've had good motives, and they might have had sinister ones. One guy might have thought that the volcano was mad because it hadn't been given a virgin. Or he might've be spurned by said virgin and so made up the myth so he could dump her in a volcano out of spite. He surmises that the guy who made things up must've known he was doing so. Maybe the author of a religion might've been reacting to a prevailing lie in his culture. Maybe he was tired of seeing things go wrong due to this prevailing philosophy around him.
He gives a little flesh to the suspicion that all religions were just made up to make sense of the world around us. He throws out the question: Can anyone be trusted?
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at December 18, 2007 09:37 AM