* The Odyssey
is a fairytale, the most wonderful ever written, because it is untrue to life precisely in its most seemingly realistic moments. What distinguishes a true fairytale, after all, is not its fairies, much less the good luck of getting something for nothing, but, on the contrary, the principle of something for something: of love, faith, and steadfastness always having their commensurate reward. Lefum tsa’ara agra,
the ancient rabbis said: “As is the suffering, so is the recompense.” But the rabbis were thinking of the World to Come. In The Odyssey,
there is only this world. *
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Judge orders priest to "prove Christ existed"* Scientific American's
review of Daniel Dennett's latest,
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.# posted by
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