to holding this or that particular belief. Looked at comparatively (that is, globally), particular beliefs are simply irrelevant. A woman with cancer can be healed by the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal. Or before the shrine of a Sufi saint in Karachi, Pakistan. Or in a near-death experience floating around a hospital in New York City. Or in a UFO encounter in Colares, Brazil. She can be a French Catholic, an Indian Muslim, an American Hindu, an Indigenous Spanish Amazonian, or anyone else. Honest and careful comparison quickly reveals the efficacy and power, even necessity, of belief
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