Bite 3 by FP: When people enter into a love relationship and hold each other’s heart, it is a dangerous situation. Both are vulnerable and can be hurt. Poor martyred St Sebastian did not die from his wounds. The same may be so for those affected by love.

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Bite 3 by NN: Institutional forms of religion can be dangerous. History informs us that threats to the existence of institutional forms of religion are often eliminated, particularly when the integrity and reputation of an institution is called into question. Individuals may then be categorized as heretical, therefore burnt or shot through with the arrows of religious love. They may also be nailed to the expensive stake of complex legal processes and suffer verbal strangulation. Whenever religious institutions ‘close-up-shop’ as a form of self-preservation, victims are abandoned and no longer belong. The preservation of a ‘white-washed-tomb’ then becomes more important than the welfare of a wounded human heart.