April 13, 2004

Margery Kempe

I had a hard time understanding this book from the moment I started reading it. The book just seems too unrealistic in these times. It's hard to understand how someone could be that devoted to God in this day in age. Religion has been taken so much out of our society that it's just hard to imagine anyone being like thta. Sometimes it was hard to even believe that God had really told her to do something or if she just used God as her way of not having to do something. I don't really understand why she would have even bothered to get married if she didn't want her husband to touch her let alone sleep with her. Her children was another mystery. We know that she had many children but nothing is mentioned about what happened to them aside from one of her sons. She seemed to be so devoted to God that she didn't even care or take care about her own children.

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