Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had be…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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