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Tasio says this to Don Filipo during a discussion about religion and purgatory. The two men are examining the idea of purgatory in this moment because it is All Souls’ Day, a Catholic holiday co-opted by San Diego’s church, which claims that people can reduce a tormented soul’s length of time in purgatory by purchasing an indulgence. When Tasio says that “pure, simple faith is as different from fanaticism as flames from smoke,” he suggests that the distinction between reasonable spirituality and irrational dogmatism is quite fine; in other words, he implies that the church in his community has taken…