"The real exile of Christians in the First World is that we have learned to endure it. We do not consider our living in the affluent societies as being in captivity. We rather have adjusted ourselves so much to Egypt that we feel at home. We have adjusted ourselves the Egyptian lifestyle. We have adopted the basic beliefs of the Egyptians. We see individualism as the measure of human development, and we share assumptions of history's caprice - sometimes this group on top, sometimes another group. We have learned to endure the exile so well that we no longer see ourselves as exiled people - as strangers in a strange land ... To learn to endure the exile is to suppress even our thirst for justice."
Dorothy Soelle. 'Thou shalt have no other Jeans before me'
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