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Interfaith Group

Htom Sirveaux

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1. Believers who use their faith that way are hurting others, hurting their faith,

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Thu Feb 5, 2015, 08:43 PM

Feb 2015

and ultimately hurting themselves by closing off the possibility of seeing the divine in the Other. It's especially ironic for those who believe that God caused the paradox of incarnating the infinite in the finite: that vision of God includes the goodness of difference on a very deep level.

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