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I'm all for it. What comes to mind are the brilliant scenes of filial piety in Homer's The Odyssey in which men venerate their fathers and worship their gods with a virile tenderness that's made visible by Homer in a way that I haven't found anywhere else. As always, of course, we must be careful to reap the grain and leave the chaff, as Saint Basil cautions.
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