CRASH HELMETS & SEAT BELTS
On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ hats to church; we should be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should use life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense.” By Annie Dillard, as quoted in Servant, Summer of 1996
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