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expose)
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such deficiencies can be very helpful, because most people want to reason well and are 
embarrassed when it (to show)
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 that they are reasoning badly. 
But we also need specific political and legal principles. Both the U.S. and Europe long (to com-
mit)
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to an idea of equal human dignity, and to principles of religious liberty and toleration (to 
base)
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upon this idea. This commitment entails that the space of religious free exercise must be 

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ample, and that it must be equal for all, whether majority or minority. Often (to attain)
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true 
equality requires special “accommodation” of minority practices, because such daily matters as 
the choice of work days and holidays, or laws about drugs and military service, (to tailor)
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to the 
religious needs of the majority and are heedless of minority requirements. 
Because intolerance so often (to cause)
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by fear, however, we also need to confront it on the 
emotional level, (to use)
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everything we know about the workings of emotions such as fear, sym-
pathy, disgust, and respect. One thing we know is that demonization of “the other” is far easier if 
people (to know)
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nothing much about this “other,” never (to encourage)
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to think what the 
world (to look)
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like from that different viewpoint. In order to move beyond a climate of fear, then, 
we need more than good principles: we need the cultivation of sympathy, and therefore we need 
approaches through education and rhetoric, not just through argument. 
Ex. 39. Use of English. Cyber Church: Future Church?
a) Choose the best variant. 
b) Comment on the influence of technologies on religion. Should religions change? 
How much? How do religions preserve continuity with their pasts? 
How important is this?
Controlled with/by (1) unseen hands, the three-dimensional cartoon surrogates act like/as (2) 
sinners, saints and skeptics in an unusual cyber church that is spreading/stretching/extending (3) 
reality.
Ten/Tens of (4) thousands of computer users worldwide have stepped across the electronic 
threshold of Church of Fools since it opened in May as a three-month/ a three-months (5) experi-
ment to reach people who don’t go near/come to/come up to (6) brick-and-mortar churches, its 
English founders say.
It’s also attracting curious churchgoing Christians.
And, as any pastor knows, shepherding a congregation isn’t always a piece of angel food cake. 
“What we’re doing is similar with/to (7) churches in difficult urban situations,” said Goddard/God-
dard said (8). “We don’t want to eject people just because they’re not behaving themselves/behav-
ing (9) in the way churches traditionally expect. Our aim is to welcome people who don’t normally 
go to a/the/x (10) church, so ‘difficult’ people are in/by/on (11) definition who we’re aiming for.
Designed in a Romanesque style, Church of Fools offers a regular/habitual (12) Sunday ser-
vice led by a male or female minister figure or a bishop, impromptu weekday services, private 
prayer, occasional counseling/councilling (13) and freewheeling group discussions via text. The 
novice/novel/novelty (14) for a faith-based site is its three-dimensional cartoon avatars, figures 
that/which/whose (15) actions can be controlled by individual computer users. Goddard thinks 
this is the first cyber church with them. Since they are/ Though they are/ X (16) slow-moving by/
in/on (17) game standards, there are men and women figures, including some that look like/are 
likely/look as if (18) Ned Flanders, Homer’s evangelical neighbor on The Simpsons.
Most visitors enter a/the/x (19) church as eavesdropping observers, each represented by/ rep-
resenting (20) a ghostlike avatar that’s invisible for/to (21) others. Up to 500 x/at/in (22) a time 
can wander a/the/x church, walk down to a discussion lounge, give a blessing or make 11 other 
gestures privately.
The site is independent, but it has an Anglican flavor/flavoring (23). A/The/X (24) Church of 
England priest from York conducts services and drops in to talk and pray with visitors pretending 

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