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Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.

He added, “There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”

Some white churches “have the luxury to say, ‘Let’s just spiritualize everything and not get involved in politics,’” Alick said.

But there is a genuine threat to democracy when citizens spiritualize their political differences.

For these adherents, Christianity is a kind of spiritualized trolling of the modern world that gives them a vehicle to promote a particular vision — usually white, usually Western — of pre-modernity.