On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:27 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> I think I told the story from last year. There was an author on
> WMNF. He'd
> once been an evangelical christian, broke away and then went on to
> write a
> book critical of evangelicism. A woman phoned in and told him that
> everything he said about Christianity was worthless to her b/c he
> was just
> talking from his head. it was all book learning. To be real and
> worthy, he
> had to be talking from his heart. If it was mediated by rationality,
> thinking, thought -- no good. It had to be "in the gut". In fact,
> all his
> actual study of religion pretty much negated even his own
> experience of
> being a Christian at one time.
The caller sounds like something almost word for word out of Hofstadter's anti-intellectualism book - describing the late 18th/ early 19th century!
Doug