"All Right, Then, I'll Go To Hell."

Some days--and these are very, very few--I wish I could Tweet.

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 Huckā€™s resolution when I am told by religious leaders that ā€œthe Bible is clearā€ on this or that, and that Iā€™ve got to stop listening to those gut feelings that tell me maybe weā€™ve gotten a few things wrong, that maybe thereā€™s more to the story than weā€™re ready to see.

ā€œYour feelings donā€™t matter,ā€ they say.

ā€œYour feelings cannot be trusted,ā€ they say.

ā€œOnce you start listening to your feelings, over and beyond the plain meaning of Scripture, itā€™s a slippery slope to hell,ā€ they say.
 ...reminded me of my post last week about Orthodox Alexithymia.

Here's praying that we all follow Huck and think up something worse to do.

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