Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendenc…

John Updike
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Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. ✨ John Updike (2012). Telephone Poles and Other Poems, p.86, Knopf
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Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. ✨ John Updike (2012). Telephone Poles and Other Poems, p.86, Knopf

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