The desperate need for a king...

I'm working my way through the the Odyssey and note that everyone in the first two books is either blamed or has the blame cast upon them for the problem of the suitors:

• Telemachus blames the gods for what comes to pass.
• The gods are vexed that humans blame them for the bad things that happen and in turn blame man with "heaping wantonness upon themselves."
• Telemachus blames the suitors for his troubles.
• Antinous, one of the suitors, blames Penelope for having "rapt away the wits of the Achaean men."
• Penelope's parents get blamed for not bringing her back home and choosing a husband for her.
• Telemachus blames the rest of the people who have "sat by mutely, without word of denunciation or restraint: though you are very many, and the suitors are but few" allowing injustice to go unpunished.

Homer seems to be telling us that a son needs a father, a wife needs a husband, and a people need a king.

Nature and the Knowledge of God

"Human beings have never before lived lives so remote from nature, or been more insensible to the enigma it embodies. For late modern peoples, God has become ever more a myth, but so in a sense has the world; and there probably is no way of living in real communion with one but not the other." (From The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart)