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There is nothing harder than to be told that what we hold sacred is an idol. (64).

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The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry. (40).

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Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all. (17).

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Sin ceases to be a defect which excludes, and comes to be participation in the mechanism of exclusion. (17).

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In the face of those who have no voice, we must, above all, avoid being strong with the weak (cf. 1 Cor. 10:23-30). (54).

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... It is our being bad brothers and sisters that leads us to be bad fathers and mothers, not our having bad fathers and mothers that has made us bad brothers and sisters.

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All human paternity comes internally structured by fratricide and, as paternity, is incapable of truth, because it will always be protecting itself against the 'other'. (48).

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Now, here is Jesus' point: he is not only the culmination of the project, but the project itself, God made brother, offering us to become siblings, but vulnerable to fratricide. (73).

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There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are only brothers and sisters like ourselves: fragile receivers and mete-ers out of ambivalent and often fratricidal fraternity. (80).

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The only places in the gospels where the paternal voice of God appears independently of Jesus is precisely to indicate that it is to Jesus that we must listen, and that in him God is glorified. (81).

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