WELL, THAT'S PART OF IT
[Jonah Goldberg  02/23 05:20 PM]

From an e-friend:

Jg,

I'm going to help you out here. (To which you're delighted, I'm sure.)

If I may leap into your brain for a moment, I think your initial garlicky reaction to the crunchy stuff may be because it lacks at it's base, robust humor and embracing joy.

There is an ineffable stiffness to the whole treatise, that seems to leave little room for the true God-given grace that enables a diverse enjoyment of mankind.

I have some major Biblical objections to the whole thing, namely, Jesus told us not to worry about what we were to wear - or eat tomorrow - for that matter.

Hence, my topsy-turvy objection to CC's superfluous qualifiers. It is an attempt to define an "authentic" spiritual life which in certain ways, is in direct opposition to what The Handbook says.