Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious For many of us, the word religious immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence, and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. David Dark argues…
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Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
For many of us, the word religious immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence, and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. David Dark argues that it's not that simple. Why not be done with it?
Dark writes: If what we believe is what we see is what we do is who we are, there's no getting away from religion. The ease with which we put the label on others without applying it to ourselves is an evasion, a way of avoiding awareness of our own messy allegiances. Both incisive and entertaining, Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious combines Dark's keen powers of cultural observation with candor and wit.
With equal parts memoir and analysis, Dark persuasively argues that the fact of religion is the fact of relationship. It's the shape our love takes, the lived witness of everything we're up to for better or worse, because witness knows no division. Looking hard