Tour
Keansburg, NJ: 3/5
Syracuse, NY: 4/5 (instrumental low-volume set)
Wallingford, CT: 4.8/5
East of the Wall is a really superb band, and I think when Rosetta got to play after them we were more inspired. Saturday night in Syracuse was "outrageous" as expected, once again due more to the Jersey contingent than the four of us. Every time we're out on the road and Brett is around, things get retarded. It never happens when we're by ourselves.
(The hills were aflame on Saturday)
While trying to go to sleep in the middle of Saturday's wild booze-fest, I overheard a girl arguing religion with Mike from EOTW. Earlier she had told me she was "hammered" and that it was a problem because she had to get up for church the next day. Apparently she considers herself a devout Christian, because her argument with Mike was a typically modernist Evangelical rant about the difference between faith and reason, and how God could not be contained by the latter, such that he required the former --- and certainly could never be "understood." Mike, a hardline agnostic, was nonplussed. Her argument wouldn't have been particularly noticeable (especially since arguments between drunk people rarely go anywhere), except that when Mike failed to convert and the conversation ended, she went outside and found a casual sex partner, presumably to make herself feel better.
What hurts about this situation is that this girl probably has been taught to believe that the resistance she encounters is "persecution," and is a sign that she is doing God's will. But why would people want to surrender their lives to something that produces such hypocrisy? Indeed, it would seem from this encounter that Christianity requires no such surrender at all, only the surrender of reason to an empty dogma, a pattern of speech, a mechanical mantra (is this what "faith" is?). Have we no shame?
Syracuse, NY: 4/5 (instrumental low-volume set)
Wallingford, CT: 4.8/5
East of the Wall is a really superb band, and I think when Rosetta got to play after them we were more inspired. Saturday night in Syracuse was "outrageous" as expected, once again due more to the Jersey contingent than the four of us. Every time we're out on the road and Brett is around, things get retarded. It never happens when we're by ourselves.
(The hills were aflame on Saturday)
While trying to go to sleep in the middle of Saturday's wild booze-fest, I overheard a girl arguing religion with Mike from EOTW. Earlier she had told me she was "hammered" and that it was a problem because she had to get up for church the next day. Apparently she considers herself a devout Christian, because her argument with Mike was a typically modernist Evangelical rant about the difference between faith and reason, and how God could not be contained by the latter, such that he required the former --- and certainly could never be "understood." Mike, a hardline agnostic, was nonplussed. Her argument wouldn't have been particularly noticeable (especially since arguments between drunk people rarely go anywhere), except that when Mike failed to convert and the conversation ended, she went outside and found a casual sex partner, presumably to make herself feel better.
What hurts about this situation is that this girl probably has been taught to believe that the resistance she encounters is "persecution," and is a sign that she is doing God's will. But why would people want to surrender their lives to something that produces such hypocrisy? Indeed, it would seem from this encounter that Christianity requires no such surrender at all, only the surrender of reason to an empty dogma, a pattern of speech, a mechanical mantra (is this what "faith" is?). Have we no shame?
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