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View submission: AITA for questioning everything?
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.
Comment by AristophanesOfAthens at 01/04/2020 at 11:15 UTC
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Strepsiades claimed that you'd said that there was no Zeus, and when asked to elaborate, claimed that it only rained when the clouds were around, that Zeus had nothing to do with it. Strepsiades is too simple a soul to tell anything but the truth, methinks. If your 'questioning' of the powers of Zeus is a slander, I apologise, but I think not; if you question everything, you question the existence of the Gods and are thus an asshole. If it is not a slander, your young followers will one day not be able to stop you and your questionable asshole from being exiled from Athens.