Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@samhaselby Simplistic. Some aver, as Chesterton, "the Xian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." Others, that Jesus came to end religion, not create one. Gandhi, likewise, drew a clear distinction between Xianity and the Jesus agenda.

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Quoted by@nils_gilman Chesterton, as religious anthropologist, coincides here with Felix S. Cohen's fundamentally indigenous recognition of a peculiarly American dimension to the great project of democracy. Heschel, as others, points Israel's way: "...not to reject, but surpass civilization."Quoted by"On the desolate ruins wrought by heresy, the sublime knowledge of God will build her temple." ~ Abraham Isaac Kook