musician conor oberst (in the latest paste magazine) talking about tackling religious belief:
“I want to find something like that. Badly. But forms where it’s been offered to me seem fraudulent. I guess it’s one of those topics that keeps coming up. My family is Catholic. I went to Catholic school, so that was my childhood. And not that I’m an expert on all these religions, but what I know is that all the other major religions just fall a little flat in their narrow mindedness. I feel like there’s something much more basic than what all these people are worried about. I find it really shocking that two groups that are, from an outsider’s perspective, almost identical–Shiites and Sunnis, or Catholics and Protestants–can actually kill each other over minor details. To me, dogma is anti-whatever I would consider God-like, which is a connectedness and an all-encompassing love.“
amen to that.
