Contemplating Your Privilege Isn’t Political

Sophia Burns
6 min readJul 26, 2021
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To succeed, every spiritual movement needs to accomplish two things. It has to deliver what it promises — or, at least, convince its adherents that someday it will. (I don’t believe that Christianity has ever rescued anybody from eternal damnation or delivered one single soul to everlasting paradise. But it’s canny enough to locate those promises after death and, therefore, beyond verification.) Faith healing…

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Sophia Burns

Paganism, Buddhism, Classics, philosophy, LGBTQ culture, and the art of living well. Former activist; I don’t trust culture war. http://patreon.com/sophiaburns