Friday, 25 May 2007

Open-mindedness

Shuggy lays into the homeopaths and other alternative therapists/quacks

Bringing to mind GK Chesterton:
"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
And more elliptically the Louvin Brother's ecumenical classic 'Broadminded':
That word broadminded is spelled s-i-n
I read in my Bible, they shall not enter in.
For Jesus will answer, Depart, I never knew you
That word broadminded is spelled s-i-n
Googling for the lyrics of which serendipitously led me to 'Drop Kick me Jesus - Through the Goalposts of Life' a nice little essay on popular christology in country music.