I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus? Madeleine LEngle
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When Kurt Vonnegut said, “I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory,” he was speaking about a lack of faith. People who take a cynical view of religion believe that faith is only something you have if your faith is small and comprehensible. In other words, if you can define your faith as a plastic figurine, then you cannot have faith. In the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, we should all love our religion as much as his fictional religion as long as it is not as small and simple as a plastic figurine.

Source: The Summer Of The Greatgrandmother

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