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The flash and the s...
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sent us flying ac...
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w...
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And it was mostly absurd. Miracles are absurd...
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If they weren’t, they’d just be odd things that happened....
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But while miracles are i...
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they ...
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coincid...
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They’re knives that cut into our reality. And they’re...
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So all of a sudden my mom had a six-year-old saying she was a Christian, which—if you didn’...
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Not a regular one either, a capital crime. The kind where if you’re found...
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I SUPPOSE IF YOU DON’T want to believe it, all you have to do is say my sister wanted to be like Ellie, or she wanted to harass my mom.
Both of which are true.
Or she was dreaming. Or the pain medication for her finger ma...
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Miracles are easy to exp...
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It doesn’t really matter what ...
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Because the point is that Sima (that’s my mom’s name) was forced at that m...
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She came to England unwilling to hear Ellie’s (or Sanaz’s) conversion story. When they arrived in England, they found a church that
welcomed them. That made them Christians.
Sima was a committed Shiite Muslim at that ti...
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You kinda have to know the
history of Islam—which Sima knew—and compare it to her experience in England as she heard about Christianity.
Then y...
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compare the claims they make about Truth and Reality that we all share but also mostly ...
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Which is ...
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can see the same things but come to different c...
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how to heal all our brok...
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Which we al...
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Which is such a big part of our lives that we don’t even not...
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We’re completely nu...
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because it’s c...
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Which is really our brains, terrified, hoping to ignore the fact
that we have giant holes in our chests.
That’s why everyone is distracted with T...
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one
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likes to talk a...
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Our broken hearts...
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But we’re going to have to talk about it soon, so...
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re...
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Here’s the issue. Islam was the third kid in the family. Judaism was the oldest. Christianity was the middle child.
Then Islam.
The Shiites were the ones who wanted Ali—the cousin—to take over, because they said we should be like the Jews. The magic is in the blood. The people. So if the Prophet had blood relatives, they were special.
The Sunnis said, No, no, the new thing to do is like the Christians. Jesus didn’t appoint cousins. He had the apostles and then later, the popes. Popes were elected. They were the best person for the job.
So the Sunnis followed Abu Bakr, because he’d been Muhammad’s best advisor. It was ...
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But if you know anything about fights, the ones in a family are way worse than th...
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The Sunnis and the Shiites went to war for hu...
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Until the Shiites...
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who thought God wanted a bloodline—lost for good in the tenth century. But they didn’t go away. Th...
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they were right. For years they would go underground, rise up for a few fights, t...
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It’s no mystery why minorities have to hide, and h...
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