Taste and see...

[Joods]

I grabbed this off the Center for Action and Contemplation Website:

"T. S. Elliot said in the Four Quartets, "[Human]kind cannot bear very much reality." What humans often prefer are highly contrived ways of avoiding the real, the concrete, the physical. We fabricate artificial realities instead, one of which, I'm sad to say, is religion itself. So Jesus brought all of our fancy thinking down to earth, to one concrete place of incarnation--this bread and this cup of wine! "Eat it here, and then see it everywhere," he seems to be saying. (Munch it, chew it, gobble it.) If it's too idealized and pretty, if it's somewhere floating around up in the air, it's probably not the Gospel. We come back, again and again, to this marvelous touchstone of orthodoxy, the Eucharist. The first physical incarnation in the body of Jesus is now continued in space and time in ordinary food."

So how do you all interpret this?

I'm looking at this and I see some sarcasm mixed in. I also see that perhaps it's Elliot's way of dumbing down religion into a nice, neat, little package for followers of god. In other words - all that's really necessary to know about religion is to be comforted by simply taking part in the Eucharist. Don't question religion. Accept it and don't worry about reality.

I could be totally misreading this. I took a nap this afternoon, dinner is in the oven and I'm hungry. Hunger tends to screw with my train of thought a little bit.