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For centuries, people have argued over theology, doctrine, and religious authority. Empires have risen and collapsed around belief. Political leaders have tried to use religion, contain it, reshape it, or erase it. And yet, when I think about what ferried the great faith traditions across generations, geography, war, migration, and upheaval, I do not first think of…
In 1929, René Magritte painted a pipe and wrote beneath it, This is not a pipe. He was not being clever. He was being exact. It was not a pipe. It was a painting of a pipe. The distinction mattered because it exposed the gap between a thing and its representation. Once that gap is visible, it becomes difficult…