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He discusses why the best religion is the most skeptical, whether that is good enough to satisfy reason's demands, how skeptical proof subsumes believing argument, and skeptical religion as reason's demand.
In a more profound sense, I sometimes think--with Theodore Adorno--that no act of fulfillment (not even the Resurrection) totally subsumes the senseless sufferings, the wastes of history.
Because the motion must be constant, because the motion subsumes all that comes in contact, the idea of the ship slides, and, its function forgotten, the day is no longer a ship but a vessel, the descent undramatic, slow enough to go unnoticed by those unacquainted with the art of the voyage, but this vessel is leaning, that shore no harbor to hope for.
 
 
 
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