Re: Sam Smith on Doug Henwood
On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:27 PM, bitch@pulpculture.org wrote:
I think I told the story from last year. There was an author on
WMNF. He’d once been an evangelical christian, broke away and then went on to
write a book critical of evangelicism. A woman phoned in and told him that everything he said about Christianity was worthless to her b/c he
was just talking from his head. it was all book learning. To be real and
worthy, he had to be talking from his heart. If it was mediated by rationality, thinking, thought — no good. It had to be “in the gut”. In fact,
all his actual study of religion pretty much negated even his own
experience of being a Christian at one time.
The caller sounds like something almost word for word out of
Hofstadter’s anti-intellectualism book - describing the late 18th/
early 19th century!
Doug