I would not want the righteous anger against totalitarianism to be exploited by those who are entering the stage as an excuse not to follow God’s commandment ‘Honor your father and your mother so that you can live long on this land.’”40 Above all, he argued, do not distort reality. Facing the past was one thing; reinventing it was quite another. “Christ tells people to return from the imagined world to reality and from the imagined self to one’s actual self. A return to God is possible from any real place—however shameful and disgusting, but not from an imagined one—because we are not there.
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