Yeah. I mean, I get that it is important and useful to point out places and ways in which we are in error... but there needs to be a balance! Religion cannot survive on moralism alone; we need connection and uplift as well.
I didn't even read the 'buy organic' thing, because I know from long experience that anything centered around 'buy local,' 'yay organics!' or 'vegetarianism is the only ecologically responsible choice, as well as much nicer to animals!' is going to drive me up the wall, even if it has some rational points. There is all too often a sense of smugness that radiates from those essays. (Which is not to say that they cannot make good points, and I do try to read them now and then, the same way I try to read conservative political essays, just to keep myself from living in too much of an echo chamber, but still.)
I actually have a very good experience in church (except for those job-related conversations, and even there I have gotten a little better about sort of powering over the 'Oh, um, well...' moment) but sometimes the discussion after a sermon can get to me a little. And I just cringe every time I hear our church advertising on the radio, because the text is so... 'smug' is not quite the right word. Naively self-righteous, perhaps? In a very Ithacan fashion, but ye gods, it rubs me the wrong way.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-09 08:00 am (UTC)I didn't even read the 'buy organic' thing, because I know from long experience that anything centered around 'buy local,' 'yay organics!' or 'vegetarianism is the only ecologically responsible choice, as well as much nicer to animals!' is going to drive me up the wall, even if it has some rational points. There is all too often a sense of smugness that radiates from those essays. (Which is not to say that they cannot make good points, and I do try to read them now and then, the same way I try to read conservative political essays, just to keep myself from living in too much of an echo chamber, but still.)
I actually have a very good experience in church (except for those job-related conversations, and even there I have gotten a little better about sort of powering over the 'Oh, um, well...' moment) but sometimes the discussion after a sermon can get to me a little. And I just cringe every time I hear our church advertising on the radio, because the text is so... 'smug' is not quite the right word. Naively self-righteous, perhaps? In a very Ithacan fashion, but ye gods, it rubs me the wrong way.