By David Dark
The ease with which we positioned the label on others with no utilising it to ourselves is an evasion, a fashion of warding off knowledge of our personal messy allegiances. darkish writes: "If what we think is what we see is what we do is who we're, there is not any getting clear of religion."
Both incisive and wonderful, Life's Too brief to faux you are not Religious combines Dark's willing powers of cultural statement with candor and wit. With equivalent components memoir and research, darkish persuasively argues that the very fact of faith is the very fact of courting. it is the form our love takes, the lived witness of every thing we are as much as for greater or worse, simply because witness is aware no division.
Looking not easy at our bizarre spiritual historical past (Dark continues all of us have one) can carry the particular content material of our daily existence―the reliable, the undesirable and the obviously inconsistent―to fuller realization. by means of doing so, we will extra essentially envision an undivided lifestyles and reclaim the assumption of being "religious."
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