I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content--a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father #AlaindeBotton

- January 11, 2024

I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content--a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father #AlaindeBotton
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I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content--a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father #AlaindeBotton

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