@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."
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Copy of tweet: Getting grounded in the Laws of the Earth. “The real epic of America is the yet unfinished story of the Americanization of the White Man, the transformation of the fear-ridden, intolerant men that came to these shores with Columbus and John Smith.”
@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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