God or Reality, it turns out, can easily manifest through a sexually abusive guru who was enlightened. Or a fundamentalist bigot who once knew eternity. It happens. We can focus on the abuse and the bigotry and condemn the man (it’s usually a man, isn’t it?), which is what humanists generally do, and with perfectly good reason. Or we can focus on the shining-through and the revelation, which is what believers generally do, and with perfectly good reason. But neither reasonable move taken alone is, in the end, very satisfactory (or very reasonable), as each will erase the other truth and so
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