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F irst of all, he's a broken saint because he's from a pagan myth, set in a time more than 1000 years before Christ.  C. S. Lewis, a Christian, argued that God has even used ancient pagans to offer glimpses of divine truth.  We can read scriptural evidence of this where St. Paul quotes pagan poets, no less than four times (1).  Paul makes the words of these pagans to be part of Holy Scripture -- as if he were baptizing what they said.  In doing so, Paul builds a rhetorical bridge between him and his audience.  And so, looking at The Odyssey (2026 film) from a Christian perspective is not out of bounds for us, especially since Christopher Nolan admits that his version of the tale involves the idea of atonement and Zeus's law mirrors the Christian Golden Rule. T he Trojan Horse was a false gift that was a betrayal to Troy and a sacrilege to Zeus.  Odysseus's trick broke Zeus' law in such a monumental way that it broke civilization itself.  So my art show...