thread: 2006-09-08 : Ben on breaking tradition
On 2006-09-13, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Okay, I indulged in rhetorical flourish at the expense of clarity, and I should've known better. My apologies to anyone who read that and had the understandable reaction of "what the hell?" For the record: No, I do not think of God as pressing out lifesize Barbie dolls of virtue with which to reward or reform deserving men (ick). Allow me to revise my statement:
Where do you think the good in these women, or in you, or in me, or in any of us, originally comes from?
We are not the sources of ourselves. Of course we should be grateful to each other. We should also be grateful to the one who gave us to each other.
