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Time Enough for Love · 1973

Robert Heinlein

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A belief that one person treats with profound seriousness may strike another as absurd. The contrast places conviction beside laughter without offering a neutral judge between them. It exposes how differently the same idea can be received, depending on the assumptions the listener brings to it.

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