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longship

(40,416 posts)

5. So was Churchill, and quite a few Democratic presidents.

Reply to Igel (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 15, 2016, 03:09 PM

Feb 2016

Human history cannot be ripped from its cultural history. As a lifelong atheist, I often embrace such allusions. So I do not see them as a negative anymore than any other allusion to literature.

It makes for good argument, and colorful reflection. I would no more condemn it than Shakespearian allusion, and there is an awful lot of that as well.

My best.