Your Voice Is Not a Metaphor
I heard voices. This is the part of my story that makes modern people most uncomfortable. They can accept the military genius, the political disruption, even the martyrdom. But the voices – the claim that I heard something others did not, that the hearing compelled me to action, that the action was justified by the hearing – this is where the discomfort lives.
I am not going to argue about whether the voices were divine, psychological, or something else. That argument is a distraction from the point, which is this: you hear voices too.