I am out to de-romanticize religion, but not in order to explain it out of existence. I de-romanticize religion so it can pervade ordinary life and consecrate it.

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Romanticism externalizes and reveres what ought to be desired, pursued, penetrated and internalized. It worships when what is most needful is love. Romanticism’s style is to reject with enthusiastic pseudo-acceptance. It loves only masks of its own creation.