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Old 07-29-2009, 03:56 PM   #32
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Only when someone tries to equate specific mythological beliefs, with scientific knowledge, and demands equal respect (other than as to literary qualities.)

Then I get agitated and beat my chest, and protest loudly.

Particularly loudly, if the mythology in question denies my eventual evolution into something less hairy....
MonkeyMan: DO NOT - I REPEAT - DO NOT READ SIMMONS' ILLIUM AND OLYMPOS.

Spoiler:

The gods and goddesses are just a bunch of advanced future humans, and Troy has been uprooted from time and space, and the whole war is being re-enacted on Mars with resurrected characters re-living the war.


I thought it was great, but you will really have to suspend some disbelief in order to power through these two huge books.
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