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\u201cContrary to the popular misconception, religion is not an escape from reality but rather a genuine effort to make sense of what passes for reality and all that surrounds it, Religious people are not escape artists; they are not practitioners of evasion or of self-deception. Religion is \u00a0not the answer to the unknowable or the unfaceable or the unendurable; religion is what we do and what we are in the face of the unknowable, the unfaceable, and the unendurable. It is the constant exercise in the making of sense first, and then of meaning.\u201d\u2014\u00a0 P. Gomes, p. 213.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cContrary to the popular misconception, religion is not an escape from reality but rather a genuine effort to make sense of what passes for reality and all that surrounds it, Religious people are not escape artists; they are not practitioners of evasion or of self-deception. 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