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Stereoscopy ~ The "Martha and Mary" of Faith

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When I was a child, my father invited the neighborhood children over to our house.  We gathered around the computer in the basement and watched with wide-eyed anticipation as my father picked up a black plastic bucket.  He moved along the mass of kids, his eyes twinkled with mirth, and we each reached in and pulled out our treasure.  I inspected mine curiously—a pair of paper glasses, blue on one side and red on the other.  I tried them on. “Nothing’s happening!” I squeaked. “Just wait.” My dad said. When at last we all had our glasses as firmly in place as possible, a picture appeared on the screen and the slide show began. All at once we were transported to a faraway world… a world of swirling dust and jagged rocks, of icy canyons and towering spires.  I reached out with my hands; the Martian landscape seemed to be coming straight at me!  Yet, when I took my glasses off, a tangled mass of grey blobs moved across the screen amorphously. I was utterly enchanted, and I asked my father