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Used as the condition God supposedly does not want, because forced belief would empty human agency of meaning.
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blind obedience
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Um, he doesn't want blind obedience from humanity because if we are all forced to believe him, then he wouldn't be God anymore."
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A student proposes that God does not want blind obedience, because forced belief would erase the meaningful relation between divinity and humanity.
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"Um, he doesn't want blind obedience from humanity because if we are all forced to believe him, then he wouldn't be God anymore."
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"...to God than we are because they live in perfect, almost blind obedience to God. And I guess I'm going to ask you about..."
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"...to believe in miracles, which forces the idea of faith as blind obedience."
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"...that you have to experience for yourself. Now faith is just blind obedience. You have to accept this as it is. You have to..."
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"...have to accept, you cannot debate it, something that forces your blind obedience, something that is exclusionary, okay? It creates a new idea in..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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