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April 23, 2017
In the absence of sincere belief in the practice and presence of Our Lord, playing dress-up starts to feel silly.
Instead, that irrepressible sense of awe is transferred to, for instance, high-class restaurants,with the candles on the table and the reverent “servers” chanting, almost liturgically, items from the menu. For the religious impulse will never go away, with its longing for a certain elevation and tone. If not foodie, every man and woman born will find something holy, and be outraged by blasphemies against it. The codes of speech and gesture that now govern our public behaviour are “spilt religion” of an obvious kind. Those who dare breach them are the new Infidels. Among the new Infidels : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 23, 2017 11:30 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.