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Fear Built Cities
When Jesus was talking about the fires of Gehenna, he was talking about the ways of cities, and he was not a city dweller himself preferring to live much as his predecessor John the Baptist did. Even in that day, the mind state associated with cities was “as the garbage pit.” Our cities have gotten…
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First Cities Were Sacred
We get the word civic from the same source as the work civil. Civic, civil, city are words sharing the same broad domain of meaning. They used to speculate that cities may have arisen for economic reasons, and this notion served the one percent quite well. It’s actually not true though, and in fact, if…