Whether in 1945, 1975, or 2015, the consensus has remained substantially the same. In the postwar era, we’ve been trained to believe that the future of humanity depends upon our ability to drain the enflaming power of traditional truth-claims from public life so that benighted peoples will not rally around old, divisive loyalties. The political imperative has remained constant: We must drive out the strong gods from the West. We do so by relativizing them, putting them into their historical contexts, critiquing their xenophobic, patriarchal, cisgender, and racist legacies, and showing how they
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