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The future Christian will be a mystic—or won’t be at all.
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The quote presents a stark choice: Christianity in the future must be lived as a direct, inward spiritual experience, not merely carried as a name or outward identity. Without that personal depth, it suggests that Christianity would no longer exist in a meaningful sense.
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