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You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.
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In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler : Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12

 

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