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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Um, at this time in history, it would, uh, be an act of sin to read the Bible by yourself, okay? Because that would..."
Jiang says that in Dante's historical setting, reading the Bible alone would be treated as sinful because solitary interpretation could be confused by satanic suggestion.
"Um, at this time in history, it would, uh, be an act of sin to read the Bible by yourself, okay? Because that would..."
"...kings will eventually start to rebel against the Catholic Church. The church controls one third of all land, and you're tax -free. And this..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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