Day 097t: No more room at the Inn … (July 20, 2019)
The monastery drew me down into its valley and steadily to its door. I had experienced great Peace here 11 years ago on my first Camino pilgrimage, and had heard great things about the place from many along my current Walk. And yet when I arrived at its wonder-resplendent doors, I found them closed, with nothing but a marbled facade to greet me, and nothing but its well-manicured gardens to lend me solace …
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion, and basic kindness usurped by its dogma.” ~ via Arthur C. Clarke
“If Jesus Christ himself were to arrive again today, people – most Christians even – would not even bother to crucify him. They would either turn him away from the inn once more, or ask him to dinner as a conversation piece – to and hear what he had to say, and then make fun of the same.” ~ via Thomas Carlyle
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