live in a world of denial, “confirmation bias,” and an ever-diminishing spiritual horizon. Their gods hate the same people they hate; their catechisms collaborate and conspire with their complexes; and their understanding of self and world as “other” is manipulated into a conformity with their fear-based agenda, resistance to change and ambiguity, a reflexive prizing of certainty over complexity, and reassurance over the central thrust of primordial religious encounter: wonder.
