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"Throughout the gospels Jesus provokes confusion [even] among his disciples. . . . [He] assumes unheard-of authority. And yet he decouples this authority from the power to judge, compel or fight—the power that makes political order possible. The kingdom of God is a manifestation of power (Mark 9:1), yet it cannot be realized by the normal mechanisms of human power (legislation, punishment, war)."

"By now, even your myths have grown old … Where is Zeus? … He has grown old … See, the myth is stripped bare! … Search for your Zeus. Do not scour heaven, but earth! Callimachus the Cretan, in whose land Zeus lies buried, will tell you where his tomb is … Yes, Zeus is dead!"

- A very Nietzschian-sounding Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation 2