Today we received a package in the mail from a beautiful chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes. It’s a chapel that sits on a hillside overlooking the ocean and it’s walls are made of glass. So if you get bored during church you can just stare at the ocean. Or if church makes you want to jump off a cliff, you can do that too.
We’ve been thinking of places to get married and this seemed like a nice option. Upon reading more about the chapel, we discovered that its everyday congregation belongs to the religion of Swedenborgianism. I had never heard of it either but I Wiki’d it and found out more. Here’s the link, or if you like, a brief summary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborgianism
Swedenborgianism was started by a Swedish inventor (Emanuel Swedenborg) who experienced dreams in which he spoke with God and gained a higher level of spirituality. He believed/was told that there is only one God, and that where you end up when you dies simply lies on what kind of a person you were when you were alive. He also believed it valid to question the bullshit of all other religions. He wrote it all down and told some friends. Then he died. He didn’t wave around snakes, go around “saving” people with his hands, he didn’t dig up some golden books and read them from his hat. He just had some dreams in which God said, “Be a good dude, and when you die, everything will be ok.” Oh and, “Feel free to poke holes in all that other bullshit that everyone knows is not true.”
I can buy that. So, today, Brenda and I have converted to Swedenborgianism.
We are in good company.
Jhonny Appleseed
Steven King
William Blake
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Carl Jung
Walt Whitman
They were all Swedenborgianists, and they all had/have brains. Hmmm, something to think about here people….
Plus I’m now in the company of some great writers. Hells yeah.
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