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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Signs of Aging
I've been to church two weeks in a row.
I wrote a little while ago about being exhausted from being frustrated. My frustration stems from clinging to a belief in justice, and as anyone with critical faculties must realize, justice is merely a theoretical concept, rarely realized in human experience. Ergo, clinging to a belief in justice is a prescription for constant frustration.
I have an excuse for gong to church. My sister-in-law expressed interest in church, and she has very little going on in her life and never expresses interest in anything. My friend Jerry is a big catholic so I pumped him for info and have taken Karen to church twice.
Odd, because I used to regard churches with vile disdain. Now that I have several decades of hypocrisy under my belt, and the lines of compromise have become deeply etched into my face, I am less judgmental. Today, I see nothing in the least contradictory about running your Mercedes over a couple homeless people on your way to church.
The convenient thing about religion is that, along with suspending judgement, you can also suspend a sense of justice. And you can suspend reason, and shame, and all manner of inconvenient convictions. From this perspective I better understand the attraction of religion.
It's a big time-saver, and eliminates a lot of headaches. Using the same philosophy, I plan to start dollar-cost-averaging my investments, buying lottery tickets, and voting Republican.
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