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Swimming Against the Secular Stream

Zealots at the Gate

CHAPTER

The Importance of Community in a Liberal Society

Sufi approaches are helpful in that they can kind of unlock a spiritual depth. But I think, yeah, you recognize it seems to me that you actually need an institution. You need a community of people who know you. Secular society is hard for Christians and Jews, but it's also hard for secular people. Because they're haunted also by this realization that they might be wrong too. There might be a God. And what if there is?

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