"The sagacious and sensible person might say, “of course he does not invite me anyway; for he invites only those who labor and are burdened.” …. The philosopher might say, “it is madness for the single individual to want to be God. If this madness were possible, that an individual human being was God, then to be consistent one would have to worship this particular human being; a greater philosophical brutishness cannot be imagined.” The scoffer might say, “The contradiction is solely and only and exclusively the inventor’s: that a human being just like the rest of us, but not as well-dressed as the average person, therefore that a poorly dressed person who most likely belongs under the welfare department-that he is God.” P. 43, 48, 52"
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