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I believe the insistence of God as the ultimate “other,” safely describable by definitions leads then to the false separation between myself and other. And I believe that separation is ultimately the reason the Church finds itself braced against dialogue with the modern world on issues of the place of women, of sexuality, and of interaction with folks of good will of other faiths and of non-faith who surround us...
religion / mysticism / welcoming /etc pt 3 Afficher plus
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The Orthodox Church seems to be setting itself up as the place where such challenges don’t apply, a separatist community holding itself up as the standard against which a wayward world is to be measured. This separatism is the antithesis of my own experience of Christ. Separation creates an idolic “Christ.” I believe such separation is what evil is all about.