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none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9

Dominant cultural forms and religious dogma were seen as scrims that hid and diverted the authentic passions and desires of humanity.

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these communities are also amputated from the collective imagination of the nation.

In the absence of a religious culture with the ability to sustain such commitment when the world is in urgent need of physical salvation, it is, I believe, of utmost importance to investigate the historical and cultural sources for such commitment.

Much of the tragic history of religious conflict—indeed, of any ideological conflict—can be traced to this monstrous inversion erected on the foundation of dominant metaphysical assumptions.

This history of ours has been flowing on strong undercurrents toward what Charles Taylor called “the great unlearning of the languages of transcendence.”5

The generally invertebrate and even subservient response of many of the churches in Germany to the rise of the Nazis, however, was in part the result of centuries of European anti-Semitism, and in even larger part the result of cowardice.

the three primordial freedoms,