I feel I need to say that none of my comments were about the details of the Abraham-Issac story. My goal was to point out the poem fails because there is no suggestion of an ending adequate to the story. A poem about one of the most profound stories in the Western world ends with the conclusion God did things this way and poor Abraham couldn’t understand “the moral we learn in church.” That is such a facile conclusion to the story. I read now the ending isn’t supposed to be about the Christian message, although it explicitly draws that comparison
I thought pointing out the weaknesses in the poem was helpful. I suggested Kierkegaard as an example of someone developing a thesis worthy of the story. I’m not a Bible scholar. What I said in the comment still seems obvious and I offered it to help it eventually developing into a convincing poem. Why that continued to be resisted is not on me but I should have stopped after the initial post. That’s on me.
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