Paradox

[holly_evolving]

" I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' "
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Comments

[galenide14.livejournal.com]

I asked myself the same exact question when I was about 12, but was afraid to ask it because I didn't want to get lectured or yelled at.