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could die. Public execution! Think of the shame. God<br />

felt it. To free you! I'm sorry, I don't mean to yell."<br />

"You're not yelling. Don't apologize, even if you<br />

were. You believe it, don't you?"<br />

"Yes."<br />

"Well, stick to it. Now how exactly is God's public<br />

execution supposed to free me from anything?"<br />

"Well, because it does. It frees you, you see, the<br />

moment you fully and, well, freely believe that it does."<br />

"Does what?"<br />

"Free you."<br />

"And that's faith, I suppose. Quite a trick. Too<br />

easy, you ask me,"<br />

"Oh, I don't agree. Almost too hard. As hard for us<br />

as it is to, I guess, allow ourselves to be happy."<br />

"Pah. Now what's to keep me from believing<br />

anything I want to?<br />

Suppose I said, I don't know, Eichmann's execution<br />

set me free?"<br />

"The point isn't that God died. It's that God died."<br />

"Well, young man, it's a question of temperament,<br />

ain't it?" She frowned, then grinned. "And then He

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