[InOmnibusCaritas]

Originally Posted by aron

The peril of exclusive claims to truth is that once one's convinced themelves of this idea, they're on the inexorable path to self-centeredness, eccentricity, and stagnation.

Of course being open has its perils too, and associated costs. For instance, while there's good Christian music today, one may have to search far and wide to find it, while occasionally holding the nose. But the alterantive is to sit in a corner and declare that nobody else has communion with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and thereby enter the portal of spiritual doom.

"So be open, don't be hardened, drop your concepts, eat that tree!" (a little inside humour).

And to get the living water into me