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This reads as a sharp, comic reversal of a prayer, using doubt and philosophy to challenge religious certainty. It can be taken as irony, a provocation, or a playful confession that ideas can unsettle belief more than any simple argument. It lands in a conversation about faith and literature, where someone is half teasing, half announcing that reading has complicated the old answers.
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Originally said in English.
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