"… Or I could write a novel called 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. It was partly inspired by another book I had borrowed from the White Plains public library. It was by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and was called Why I Am Not a Christian
. Are you certain your parents won't mind? one of the librarians gently asked me as I was checking it out. She had met my father, a conspicuously religious man. But, of course, my parents didn't mind—we were Jewish! They were fine with me not wanting to be Christian. This Bertrand Russell, whoever he was, was okay with them. Little did they know..."
https://open.substack.com/pub/rebeccanewbergergoldstein/p/ecstasy-immodesty-and-obedience?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios
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