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Migrations of the Holy and Gentle Spaces (Followers of the Way 2.8)

Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

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When you say love of country or love of nation, the kind of love it requires is passionate love. It's always trying to group together with people who share as much as possible. To do that is a constant exclusion. All patriotic and nationalistic groups do this. They'r physiprists. They're fighting. And so any group that is trying to form itself on how much its members share with each other is a group that is bound to collapse under its own selfish, individualistic weight. Only a gape love is going to form actual social friendships, actual bonds between others,. which is neighbor love, rather than nation love. We wather the nationhood. We turn to

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