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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
We are a good church. We are good at organization, missionary work, and accomplishing tasks. But we are not a particularly thoughtful, philosophical church. We as a people don't produce art, and don't particularly appreciate art. We are a simple people, descended from uneducated pioneers. Ethics/Morality/Philosophy is the luxury of the gilded, not the task of the hand that plants the seeds and thrusts the sickle.
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I recall reading a book by P/J. O'Rourke where he compared the naming of things in the east (Athens Georgia) to the things in the west (Red Bluff, AZ) noting that in the East they liked ideas but in the west they had too much to do to linger over ideas. Our church is the church that best represents that idea. We are practical, do not care for pretension and are builders and problem solvers, but we are not great thinkers or philospohers. In fact, we don't trust people that are.