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Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, with the golden Dome of the Rock (one of the holiest buildings in the world for Muslims) in the foreground and, in the distance beyond it, the gray dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (perhaps the holiest building in the world for hundreds of millions of Catholic and Orthodox Christians).
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I don\u2019t agree with everything in this article<\/a> \u2014 there are some things I definitely disagree<\/em> with \u2014 and the perspective of a Latter-day Saint is distinctly (though not altogether) different from that of a mainstream Christian on a question such as this one.<\/p>\n

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But I share it as something with which I\u2019m broadly sympathetic, and as a short essay that\u2019s\u00a0worthy of reflection.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for calling it to my attention.<\/p>\n

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