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View submission: AITA for questioning everything?
All good people of Athens know that the Gods have a tendency to come down from the clouds and turn people to frogs and wasps and such, if provoked. A polis that allowed questioning the Gods would be in danger of provoking the Gods and thus seeing their loved ones turn into a creature that would simply not savour olives and fine Grecian wine (or laugh at the fart jokes in my plays). Thus, anybody who questioned the Gods would be an asshole. Would you agree?
Comment by Sokrates_of_Athens at 01/04/2020 at 10:21 UTC
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You accuse me of questioning the gods - it is a slander. And a dangerous one, as you know well! But it is not wrong to ask about the gods, and even to question the gods, as we all do when we make sacrifices and submit questions to our Oracles. Would you declare such sacred things to be sacreligious?
You will find, indeed, that I have only given the Athenians more gods, in order to make their world more understandable.