“I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.”
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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
