Modern religion

In the train home just now, there were two businessmen in suit and tie, talking. One was about 55, with a neat little beard, the other perhaps 40, and a bit pudgy.

Beard was talking about having been on a Jesuit-style retreat, and then Pudgy said he'd been was practicing za-zen of some Korean flavour for five years now. They started talking shop about postures and supports for meditation, and about the books of a Jesuit named Lasalle who'd written a book about zen for Christians which both Beard and Pudgy had read. Then, they continued to mysticism, and bemoaned the fact that rational thinking had discredited it in Christianity and Islam alike.

I stopped reading 'Flight Of The Raven' and just listened. Anybody dare claim modern times are utterly un-spiritual...