On The Trail of a Tale - Part Two: The Sources of Franklin’s Parable in 17th Century Christian Arguments for Religious Tolerance
Part One Recap: After revealing that Benjamin Franklin’s Parable Against Persecution was in fact a retelling of a 13th
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The Power We Pretend Not To See - 3
“If you take those narratives at face value, though, those violations seem less like actual assaults, literal or metaphorical, than a necessary condition for spiritual growth to take place.”
On The Trail of A Tale - Part One: Benjamin Franklin's Persian Parable
Had Franklin gotten his wish...and the Parable had remained unpublished, neither its origin in the work of the 13th-century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz nor the story I am telling you would have become known, at least not in the way we know them now.
Four by Four #51
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me