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Pain, Wisdom and Mercy

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Is Religion a Crutch for Weak Minded People?

i've always thought of you as a kind of intellectual catholic, and that's kind of how you describe yourself in the book. I don't think of you as some one who is going to your local parish and laying in the nave of the church begging for mercy. You had better believe that i leaned on my belief in a silent, invisible god more in those miserable months, that miserable summer, than on any hope or notion or idea in any prior portion of my life. And there's part of that that you only have in the absolute crisis rit the scriptural phrase: The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.

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