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Most of us want to be esteemed more than we deserve. Take Facebook profile photos: most don’t necessarily reflect what a person really is, but rather what he or she would like to seem . It is a small and absolutely pardonable vanity, but it unveils a way of being that eats away at friendship, that very communion that we most desire. Through these little insincerities comes a mentality in which appearance is more important than truth, and that is an obstacle to love. — Jonah Lynch

If we wish to apprehend the postmodern God, we have, then, to investigate the project of modernity with reference to the shapes it gave to time, space, and bodies. For these shapes portrayed the face of modernity’s god—the god whom Nietzsche (following a suggestion by Hegel) pronounced dead. — Graham Ward