Plants.
Seriously - my parents made the mistake of giving me as many science books at the same time as taking me to synagogue and Jews have no problem with saying something's metaphorical if it keeps people coming back. I ended up truly not caring about temple, just about nature. And then I read Spinoza and Walt Whitman and whatever might have leaned towards a personal god was swept away, and after that it was only cobwebs.
No moment in temple ever gave me the feeling that standing amongst the Shenandoah mountains in spring could. And no god ever made me want to fall to my knees in awe like visiting the caverns under those mountains.
I would have made a much better pagan.
Seriously - my parents made the mistake of giving me as many science books at the same time as taking me to synagogue and Jews have no problem with saying something's metaphorical if it keeps people coming back. I ended up truly not caring about temple, just about nature. And then I read Spinoza and Walt Whitman and whatever might have leaned towards a personal god was swept away, and after that it was only cobwebs.
No moment in temple ever gave me the feeling that standing amongst the Shenandoah mountains in spring could. And no god ever made me want to fall to my knees in awe like visiting the caverns under those mountains.
I would have made a much better pagan.
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