Monday

The Sketchbook Project - 2


My questions of religion are not about belief, but worship. My issues are of form, not function or substance. As we grow, we are taught the right and wrong form of worship and we are brought into conformity with beliefs established- it is spoon fed. Are those of us who are not in a position of religious power unable to cut and chew our own food without dogmatic guidelines and childhood hypnosis? Too often we lose the underlying power of religious experience in the trappings of control and become automatons of worship. Religions rarely ask their participants to explore truth outside of proscribed pathways. Is it the fear of false truths? Is it the fear of alternative truths being found? Is it a fear of diluted truth and the dissipation of the community as truths multiply? Or is it the fear of those in power losing their basis for power?


Eric in a Word: uloid
Book of the Day: Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps - Peter Galison
Song of the Day: Black Tambourine- Beck
Religious Figure of the Day: Ptah
Medium: white out, tea, graphite, and ink on 8.25" x 5" sketchbook page

2 comments:

abigail worden said...

I think what you said is perfect, Professor Giles. Didn't you get a degree in religious studies?

Eric Giles said...

Yes.