The Resistance to Torn Apart

History reminds us that the world wasn't always secular in its outlook inspiration and daily life, as it now is in the west. It also reminds us of the excesses that have all too often been associated with religious fanaticism. Some of the best work gets done precisely when belonging and not belonging. And i think it is the resistance to tearing apart, whois inside and whois outside, who looks at the past from within and who thinks of it as a passionate statement of their own existential conviction. If they 're held together, we have, in a way, good historical culture. When they they are torn apart and become challenges to each other's ways of looking, then that's