division 4

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

There's no place that division would not make things better. I don't say utopian, just better.

He is resigned to the inertia of the old Spanish cult, and willing to just let it fade away. The voluptuousness of European culture had no way to gain traction…