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In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is the Messiah a Gift?

Messiah is a trope that keeps getting re invented, without the religious content. It's an etsonic, ecstatic and carismatic, or gifted. People often talk about that tat they don't know what comes over them,. And that's got just as much secular resonance artistic inspiration or scientific creativity. But they all depend on the idea that there's something, a spirit from outside, an inspiration that comes from outside.

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