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As someone who grew up in a mostly agnostic household, but ultimately converted to Christianity in my adult life, I find sentiments like "There is a caution, here, for strands of the renewed interest in Christianity that seem focused on battling non-Christian or ‘woke’ forms of thought and ways of living" to somewhat miss the mark in describing why people come to the religion. I don't think people come to Christ so that they can debate liberal atheists, but because they are disenfranchised by the current state of society: modern spirituality feels hollow, and we are plagued with social issues caused by general immorality.

I also find statements like "Watts tried to suggest that a truly all-inclusive God would not be bound by Western logic, with its insistence on mutually exclusive propositions. In Asia, argued Watts, one found not just ‘either-or’ forms of logic but ‘both-and’ forms, too." to reflect a shallow view of Christianity. For instance, ancient Jews (not westerners) pioneered the idea of a "a truly all-inclusive" god, while also creating a literary tradition (the old testament) full of contradictions and "either-or" forms of logic. Another example would be that even though the catechism creates definitive "logical" doctrine for the Catholic church, the Eucharist which is practiced every Sunday fully embraces mysticism.

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