"An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?"

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Source : Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

Annie Dillard

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