If I could Tweet I'd Tweet Rachel Held Evan's post today--"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
My hunch is that a lot of you follow both our blogs and you've already read Rachel's post, but if you haven't it's an awesome piece. The center of the post are Huck's moral reflections about Jim, but this part of Rachel's post...
I often think about Huckās resolution when I am told by religious leaders that āthe Bible is clearā on this or that, and that Iāve got to stop listening to those gut feelings that tell me maybe weāve gotten a few things wrong, that maybe thereās more to the story than weāre ready to see....reminded me of my post last week about Orthodox Alexithymia.
āYour feelings donāt matter,ā they say.
āYour feelings cannot be trusted,ā they say.
āOnce you start listening to your feelings, over and beyond the plain meaning of Scripture, itās a slippery slope to hell,ā they say.
Here's praying that we all follow Huck and think up something worse to do.