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" God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. "

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" Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. "

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