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Laws need stories
'Love your neighbor' is followed by stories answering 'Who is my neighbor?' 'Love the stranger' rests on Israel's own story as refugees.
Nations need narratives.
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Laws imposed without shared experience breed resentment. The biggest challenge for political communities is telling their story in a way that's honest and inclusive enough to create real kinship. Without such a narrative, Jacob Wright warns, we are destined to perish.
Bible reference: Leviticus 19:18, 34
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 469
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