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I Now Pronounce You
Dec. 9th, 2008 08:28 amBack from Dallas, watching Couplingchaos’s little sister get hitched. It was fun, hanging out with family and friends who’ve known her all her life, they’re good fun people, easy to talk to and be around. The wedding was good, bridesmaids looked awesome, and this is the first time I’ve seen bridesmaid dresses that you honestly would actually wear out somewhere not a wedding or a prom; beautiful strapless red silky fabric things, with this shirring abound the bust and midriff, and a fantastic drape down from there, really stunning. Worked great with the gold and red jewelry Couplingchaos created for the event.
The wedding sermon went on a bit too long, but what do you expect, the groom’s grandfather is he’s a preacher by trade. A few times he strayed into territory you’d roll your eyes at, saying how God hates divorce, and, while it’s possible to have a happy marriage without God, a marriage isn’t the best it can be without the Lord. It sounded quaint and dated, in that way that grandparents talk about stuff, you wanna pat them on the head. I wonder if old believers realize how progressively irrelevant their brand of religion is becoming in modern society. That sorta disapproving, our-God-is-the-One-True-God religion that’s becoming less and less meaningful now that people (particularly women) go to college, move to the cities, become friends with people from wildly different backgrounds, with all the world-broadening and mind-opening that entails. Is it frustrating for old school Bible-thumpers to see that less and less people care? I think worse than being attacked, is being ignored. Looking at the dustjackets of the Christian adventure/thriller fiction (there’s a lot of that in the airport bookstore, you know, the Left Behind-ey stuff) it feels like they’re going through a lot of work to make it seem like Christianity is under attack from all these malevolent organizations, when in reality, it’s just that people don’t care. Hard to make a compelling story when your adversary is indifference. Don’t get me wrong, I’m only talking about the extreme end of Christianity, the great majority are reasonable, rational folk like you and me. There’s a lot of them down there, the churches are HOOJ. Looks like a Wal-Mart with a cross on the side. There’s some Baptist mega-church stadium they got down there, they call it The BaptoDome. I like that.
The wedding sermon went on a bit too long, but what do you expect, the groom’s grandfather is he’s a preacher by trade. A few times he strayed into territory you’d roll your eyes at, saying how God hates divorce, and, while it’s possible to have a happy marriage without God, a marriage isn’t the best it can be without the Lord. It sounded quaint and dated, in that way that grandparents talk about stuff, you wanna pat them on the head. I wonder if old believers realize how progressively irrelevant their brand of religion is becoming in modern society. That sorta disapproving, our-God-is-the-One-True-God religion that’s becoming less and less meaningful now that people (particularly women) go to college, move to the cities, become friends with people from wildly different backgrounds, with all the world-broadening and mind-opening that entails. Is it frustrating for old school Bible-thumpers to see that less and less people care? I think worse than being attacked, is being ignored. Looking at the dustjackets of the Christian adventure/thriller fiction (there’s a lot of that in the airport bookstore, you know, the Left Behind-ey stuff) it feels like they’re going through a lot of work to make it seem like Christianity is under attack from all these malevolent organizations, when in reality, it’s just that people don’t care. Hard to make a compelling story when your adversary is indifference. Don’t get me wrong, I’m only talking about the extreme end of Christianity, the great majority are reasonable, rational folk like you and me. There’s a lot of them down there, the churches are HOOJ. Looks like a Wal-Mart with a cross on the side. There’s some Baptist mega-church stadium they got down there, they call it The BaptoDome. I like that.
