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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker . He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air . His support is the slenderest imaginable . And yet it really is possible to walk on it . 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein The tightrope may not hold forever , but it is crucial that it be capable of at least temporarily bearing the weight of its burden safely . 2 Tamar Ross For Tamar Ross , the “ burden " for the religious thinker of today is the inevitable acknowledgement of the all - encompassing human influence on religious 1 P . 76 Wittgenstein , L ,. Culture and Value . Ed . G . H . von Wright , in collaboration with Heikki Nyman . Tr . Winch , P ,. Chicago ] University of Chicago Press [ 1980 . Cited by Ross twice , once in : “ The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Claims : Rabbi A . I . Kook and Postmodernism " , in Rabbi Dr . Lamm ’ s Jubilee Volume , December 1997 . ) Hebrew trans . appears as ‘ Hare - Iyah Kook VePostmodernizem : HaErekh HaHekhrakhi shel ’Ta anot Emet...
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