And it is an expense to have merely one God, because He has all the answers, gives all the advice, requires all the worship. He does not subcontract, the Christian God; He is a jealous multitasker. Whereas the pagan and Hellenistic gods are multiple and multifarious. You have your favourite gods, each of whom is in charge of separate activities, and they have their favoured human beings. Of course they frequently quarrel among themselves, and humans are often collateral damage. They may abandon you on a whim: that is why you always need to curry favour with them. Splash out on another white
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