Contemplating Your Privilege Isn’t Political
6 min readJul 26, 2021
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…