Dogs, literalism & synchronicity
I’m speaking to a high school class this afternoon, and fortuitously—I’ll say it was synchronistic ( Click on paranormal posts to read about synchronicity )—someone sent me this wonderfully comic debate on the marquees of two churches facing each other on a busy street in Colorado. It’s a perfect illustration of religious literalism. I’ll see if the high school students get it. All dogs go to heaven Only humans go to heaven Read the Bible God loves all his creation Dogs included Dogs don’t have souls This is not open for debate Catholic dogs go to heaven Presbyterian dogs can talk to their pastor Converting to Catholicism does not magically grant your dog a soul Free dog souls with conversion Dogs are animals There aren’t any rocks in heaven either All rocks go to heaven Dogs & literalism I was happy to see that the Catholic one showed a whimsical appreciation of literalism and had fun with it—dogs and rocks go to heaven. One email responder, a fully alive Catholic, wrote...