Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age (#179)
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The Other Is Someone Worth Risking
At the very heart of that hospitality that Abraham practiced is deciding that the other the stranger is someone worth risking Letting in not protecting yourself killing the strangers that are coming you see. I think He uses that notion of other as a way of generating that depth dimension and cynicism cuts us off from that we like to explain away the other situation Maybe give them responsibility for insert their situation or we can do it bio Chemically we can doit Systemically the left and the right have different ways of justifying a cynicism But what it ultimately does is protect the way the other can make a claim upon us or the other can can lay claim to the potential Within us.
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