Truly orthodox

In our community, the eternal — and often infernal — divide between the so-called orthodox and the reformist needs to be viewed in light of the reality that practices are an acquired encrustation on the kernel of religion. Rather than protect religion, this layered corrosion gives it a false appearance, so as to arbitrarily redefine what it has transformed. Seen thus, it’s the "reformist” who is, indeed, truly orthodox in its pristine sense. PHIROZE B. JAVERI
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