As an undergraduate classics major, I translated Plato's Apologia. When I completed the translation I sat back and asked myself, "How is it possible that no one created a religion around this man?"
Wrong time, wrong place. Otherwise, we'd have churches of Socrates throughout the world. Only it wouldn't be Socrates, but some evangelist's pious misrepresentation of his teachings and significance.
Thank God, I say, thank God! For if he had not been spared such misplaced adoration, we would have lost him forever.
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