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Jiang reads Putin's secret baptism and his mother's devotion as a dog whistle to Orthodox fanatics and as a claimed similarity with Stalin's seminary background.
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Jiang reads Putin's secret baptism and his mother's devotion as a dog whistle to Orthodox fanatics and as a claimed similarity with Stalin's seminary background.
Virgil's stated rule is that virtuous pagans remain in limbo because they lack baptism, with Christ's descent into hell as the single historical exception.
Statius proves Virgil was lying or wrong because Statius, another unbaptized Roman epic poet, can ascend to heaven while Virgil cannot.
"The best evidence for this is, again, the biographic detail that Putin revealed to journalists, that his mother was a devout Christian who baptized..."
"...virtuous though they have merits that's not enough because they lack baptism okay the fundamental rule of heaven is you have"
"to be baptized into the faith the portal of the faith that you embrace and if they live before christianity they do not worship..."
"heaven and that was the death of Jesus Christ remember that he was crucified and he was crucified and he was crucified and he..."
"That's how Virgil, that's how much I love Virgil. That's how much, how important Virgil is to me. He doesn't know that the person..."
"But Virgil is not. Does that make sense? And the reason why Statius is able to go to Heaven is Statius wants to, okay?..."
"...yet, though they have merits, that's not enough because they lacked baptism, the portal of faith that you embrace. And if they lived before..."
"...yet though they have merits that's not enough because they lacked baptism the portal of faith that you embrace and if they lived before..."
"...fighting to maintain the Union. Slavery was not the main issue. Baptism is not the main issue. Lincoln himself said that if I could..."
The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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