Once you have emerged from whatever safe religious place you were in—recognizing that your view of the world is one worldview among many, discovering the historical Jesus, revolutionizing your understanding of scripture, and updating your theology—once you have changed the way you do church, or at least changed the music at your church and hired a pastor who tweets, or you can no longer find any church within a fifty-mile radius in which you can let down your guard long enough to pray; once the Dalai Lama starts making as much sense to you as the pope or your favorite preacher, and your rare
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