“One of the impulses that overscrupulous pietists have is that of trying to ‘thin out the world’ so that we won’t be as tempted to idolatry by it. But the problem with this procedure is that it never works. We can fall into idolatry with our airy abstractions as much as we do with a gold-plated statue of Buddha with baskets of fruit in front of it . . .
Glory be to God for barely visible things,
For skies kind of bland, and not show-offy” (Writers to Read, pp. 119-120).
Well, at least most don’t idolize “overscrupulous pietists”!
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They tend to have “bland” down, like a back bench HRC campaign staffer.
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