Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of this world? What makes us better? It is because they do not build, but destroy. They do not love, but hate only. We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters. But if we did not have the capability to love, we could not guard humans; we must love to guard them. My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven
Jesus_ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately __ose_ _ as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics _ we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into __inning_ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the __ther_.
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Jesus_ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately __ose_ _ as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics _ we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into __inning_ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the __ther_.
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