“Religion” is a chiasm,9 a mutual ligature (on the old etymology of “religio”) of God's prayers and ours, each bound to the other, rigorously (the alternate etymology), an intertwining of God's need for us and our need for God, a binding of the precariousness of our existence together with the precariousness of God's insistence, the chiasm of insistence and existence, of inexistence and existents.
