An Epiphany

I had occasion today to speak to my discussion group of an enlightening moment I experienced yesterday on the net.  One of my blogster friends had written a little piece about religion.  He writes fairly well but this dissertation seemed a bit sophomoric, but then, this particular friend is only 19 years old so I let it go that he was entitled.

But then another internet cruiser had taken my friend to task over one of the claims he had made about "liberal religion."  Seems he had said something to the effect that it's no different from all the other pseudo stances the religionists take: a bundle of intellectual platitudes. 

I expected my young friend to take issue with his critic, develop some evidence and half-baked arguments to defend his position.  I was mistaken.  Instead the young fellow apologized, saying in clearly enunciated words, at least three levels above sophomoric, that his put-down of liberal religion was just him trying to sound smart, that in fact he knew nothing about liberal religion.

I was dumbfounded.  Is this kid really only 19 years old?  Yes, he is only 19, and I'm glad to hear it.  There's still hope for the world when people of any age have the courage and integrity to risk opening themselves up to the world.  I've seen scads of the other kind, people who make asinine statements and then twist the truth into unbreakable knots trying to make themselves right.

Like I say . . . an epiphany, "a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into reality or essential meaning . . . . "  A view of what the world might be like if . . . if . . . only if . . . .