Roseanne Cash (whose last album I loved), has a piece in the NYTimes today where in passing she notes a friend’s description of Christian fundamentalists:

I thought of something a friend used to say about that particular brand of religion — that it was like “looking at the ground with a flashlight when the whole universe was around you waiting to be noticed.”

What a great metaphor! And not just for fundamentalism, but for any of the myriad ways in which each of us refuses to look beyond the boxes we live in.

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