You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental mind-shaping driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty for in it are born our art our science our religion.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
