Also impoverishes religious fiction. RT @HeerJeet: Key point: to reduce religion to belief is to diminish most human experience of it.
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@HeerJeet I kind of agree, although "core part" doesn't get it right. Liturgy, for the religious person, is the poetry of a life. -
@dg_myers Agree: perhaps another metaphor would be an architectural one: liturgy houses the soul, as a building houses the body. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Irreligious people examine the liturgy with close rationality, criticize its nonsense. The religious person listens to its music.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Small example: just before the Shema, we pray on Shabbes mornings: "All my bones cry out, 'You alone are God!'"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet As someone whose cancer has metastasized to his bones, this fragment of the liturgy is as glorious as Bach or Yeats.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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