Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

156. SPARE ME YOUR DOOR-TO-DOOR GOD:

The van went by with its lettering on the side ‘St. Paul’s Evangelical Church’ and it was stopping here and there to pick up worshippers and later to drop them off and I thought to myself how difficult it must be to explain away this form of door-to-door church service in the face of the religion being preached : who first dreamed this up ? the picking up of and the delivering back of worshippers ? after all there were certainly no great distances involved and the ultimate responsibility I’d always thought for sound living is in the self-motivated enabling of the human spirit – kindled and energized by its own spirit of God within – to go to and get to places and activities of its own ordination : this bespoke everything in just the opposite way and I realized ‘SOMETHING’S wrong.’