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Morford on DIY Religion



SF Gate columnist Mark Morford sometimes has some good stuff (along with a measure of whininess). This week, he’s got a decent piece about modern do-it-yourself spirituality, entitled What’s On Your iGod? Allow me to cut to the chase and ruin the ending of the article for you:

Religion is supposed to be so goddamn empowering that it could very well empower you right out of the very belief system that’s doing the empowering. It should catapult you back into yourself, whole and gleaming and so reconnected to your higher self (which is, of course, God, in miniature) that you don’t even need religion anymore. Possible? Crazy, I know.

Nothing really mind-blowing, but worth reading anyway if you’re interested in this stuff.







1 Reader Responses

  1. alistair Says:
    August 30th, 2005 at 6:54 pm

    i guess i don`t see where his piece is headed. religion is a tiny piece in the corner of the venn diagram labelled spirituality. the circle is huge, infinite. so large that it defies and resists quantification. all is what it is. a rejection of religion is probably the wrong way to go about things because it is throwing the baby out with the bath water in that we need prayer and meditation as a method. we need the process of quiet found in these giant buildings of renaissance europe and around the world. we need the respect and discipline of devotional practice. what we don`t fucking need is the men in dresses. the ecumenical technocracy that ensures that we don`t access divinity.
    we do need more voices willing to challenge the status quo from within. that is my aim. as a doctor of divinity i will be able to give voice to a direct access to the divine. it is my one true desire. revenge of angels? who knows. one foot in front of the other, nontheless.



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