I’m in Athens now, reporting a story about shipping, and I’m buying a bottle of water at a coffee stand on my way to the airport.
What my dad calls petrodolatry—the worship of stones—is everywhere in the ancient city. In the agora a guide showed me the stony spot where Socrates harangued shoppers about consumerism and the stony spot where he said, justifying his existence, “I speak as a gadfly.”
He spoke to keep us on our toes, to keep us honest.
If Christ suffered for us, we might say Socrates was insufferable for us.
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