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Why Fasting Is Good for Democracy

Zealots at the Gate

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The Politics of COVID

I was talking to a couple of friends the other night. And for some reason we were talking about COVID, even though like, you know, obviously people have mostly like forgotten about it or moved on with their lives. We were reminiscing about how we long for those first few months of COVIir. I think that fasting and also just the constraints that religion puts upon us and is a certain kind of external constraint. It comes outside of us. But for the believer, it does feel like a pretty strong constraint,. Even though no one is literally physically shackling you.

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