who stole the inspirational finger?
Dec. 18th, 2002 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensI'm not feeling very inspired this evening, so I'm sitting around, playing word games on the computer, looking at the copies of the latest Saiyuki sections from Zero-Sum (mmmm), making a note to take in the latest issue of Girl Genius tomorrow for a friend at work, and trying to get over the lead-in-the-stomach feeling produced by a helpfully oversized portion of cauliflower cheese with grilled bacon for supper. It was very nice at the time, but now . . . well, if anyone tried to get me walking up Caradhras, I'd sink through the snow right at the bottom, never mind causing avalanches further up nearer the top.
So, in lieu of that, it can never hurt to read.
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And it isn't the doctrines on which we chiefly depend for producing malice. The real fun is working up hatred between those who say "mass" and those who say "holy communion" when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes. And all the purely indifferent things -- candles and clothes and what not -- are an admirable ground for our activities. We have quite removed from men's minds what that pestilent fellow Paul used to teach about food and other inessentials -- namely, that the human without scruples should always give in to the human with scruples. You would think they could not fail to see the application. You would expect to find the "low" churchman genuflecting and crossing himself lest the weak conscience of his "high" brother should be moved to irreverence, and the "high" one refraining from these exercises lest he should betray his "low" brother into idolatry.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
So, in lieu of that, it can never hurt to read.
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And it isn't the doctrines on which we chiefly depend for producing malice. The real fun is working up hatred between those who say "mass" and those who say "holy communion" when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes. And all the purely indifferent things -- candles and clothes and what not -- are an admirable ground for our activities. We have quite removed from men's minds what that pestilent fellow Paul used to teach about food and other inessentials -- namely, that the human without scruples should always give in to the human with scruples. You would think they could not fail to see the application. You would expect to find the "low" churchman genuflecting and crossing himself lest the weak conscience of his "high" brother should be moved to irreverence, and the "high" one refraining from these exercises lest he should betray his "low" brother into idolatry.
-- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
