Church & Faith at Pulpit Rock...: the church as a lodge for the social life

Thursday, October 14, 2010

the church as a lodge for the social life

The real Pulpit Rock was a natural rock that gave the appearance of a pulpit with off to one side a place for a choir. As children we used to pretend on this rock we were delivering sermons like the adults. This rock went back plenty far but children playing church on it went back to the 1700s when the rock was first encountered. Today the rock is gone but children continue to play church as before, only now as grown ups in real churches constructed for the purpose. As originally, the main activity is to socialize, have fun and get along with each other. Spiritual matters do not all that often come to the fore.

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