“Jesus, Yahweh, and Spinoza’s God” – Harold BLOOM

Baruch Spinoza's magnificent admonition has haunted me for more than half a century: "It is necessary that we learn to love God without ever expecting that he will love us in return." Ethically, that has a certain poignance, but is it humanly acceptable? If you substitute Hamlet for God in Spinoza's observation, then I might…