Re: News Desk: What Mortenson Got Wrong : The New Yorker

Sounds like you could use this one.  Its from the part time monk, quoting 
Annie Dillard, (I'm not familiar with her but think I should be).

"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently 
sensible of the conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea 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 all be wearing 
crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they 
should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake some day and take 
offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return."

I dunno, it really resonated with me for some reason.

http://diaryofaparttimemonk.wordpress.com/       Day 45 if you want to see 
the whole thing.

Mike F.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Lance McLain
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:09 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] News Desk: What Mortenson Got Wrong : The New Yorker

I suppose that is a glass half full perspective.  For me It just seems to 
further ingrain my cynicism.  It would be hopeful to believe that there are 
angels out there somewhere.  I thought he was one.  Guess not.

Regards,
-Lance

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 3:33 PM, "Mike Findlay" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm a glass half full kind of guy on this one.  I look at it as it being 
> good another fraud is exposed.
>
> Mike F.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lance McLain
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:50 AM
> To: DADL-OT (Mailing List)
> Subject: [DADL-OT] News Desk: What Mortenson Got Wrong : The New Yorker
>
> Gah! Yet another hero brought low.  Sometimes I wonder if there is any 
> good left in this world.
>
> Regards,
> -Lance
>
> http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/greg-mortenson-peter-hessler.html
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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