"Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer."
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Source : Norman Geras (1995). “Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty”, p.107, Verso