"Even today, there are many contexts in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, for weak and unintelligent people; contexts in which other forms of security are preferred, such as technology, money, success, power, and pleasure. These are environments where it is not easy to bear witness to and proclaim the Gospel, and where believers are mocked, opposed, despised, or at best tolerated and pitied. Yet, precisely for this reason, they are places where mission is urgent, because the lack of faith often brings with it tragedies such as the loss of the meaning of life, the forgetting of mercy, the violation of human dignity in its most dramatic forms, the crisis of the family and other wounds from which our society suffers greatly."
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