
Russian Orthodoxy, Fairy Tales, and Good Story Telling (Dcn. Nicholas Kotar) | Ep. 398
Pints With Aquinas
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The Dangers of Interpreting Stories Incorrectly
When does a story become propaganda? What is that line? When the author insists on his message being the only message. So the act of writing is a very dangerous one because you have to write in such a way that allows for the freedom of interpretation, complete freedom. This is what Christ did with the parables, by the way. He's not afraid that we're going to interpret them incorrectly because they can be encountered throughout our lives again and again and again. Every time they will say something different and they're always pointing to the truth, to him. If we interpret it incorrectly one time, life will teach us otherwise. We'll come back to it and we'll eventually get to
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