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04 May 2021

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Faith

A lot of people don't know this, I suspect.

Attention Must Be Paid

Conservatives’ congenital mistake is to try conserving something that no longer exists by supporting institutions that now belong to a regime so alien to republican life that it treats attempts at citizenship as crimes against the regime.

I hear it and read it all over the place. It's popular among a certain kind of hip evangelical writer and speaker. It's the idea, expressed in a hundred different ways, that the path to spiritual understanding is somehow tied in one way or another to my own self fulfillment