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The wedding-dispute story teaches followers to win through argument and learning by exposing contradictions in sacred law.
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Contradiction
The wedding-dispute story teaches followers to win through argument and learning by exposing contradictions in sacred law.
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Russia is modeled as a civilization of contradictions whose internal conflict is repeatedly managed through expansion, reform, rebellion, and revolution.
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Contradiction forces innovation: if a European state cannot balance social contradictions, it faces either foreign conquest or domestic revolution.
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The Catholic Church's historical power is paradoxical because a religion founded on poverty became immeasurably wealthy.
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Jiang identifies three problems in Judaism: scriptural contradiction, a problematic violent God, and the conflict between being chosen and suffering repeated historical defeat.
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The Biblical Jesus story introduces contradictions absent from Jiang's reconstruction of Jesus' teaching: God, divine sonship, crucifixion, resurrection, and second coming all have to be reconciled.
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Paul introduces miracles as a way to explain contradictions and inconsistencies in the Biblical story.
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By 146 BCE, Rome had become an imperial republic: an empire in substance but a republic in governmental form, creating a contradiction.
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"All right, can you read, Alan? It is a custom during the Jewish wedding that a distinguished person sit by the groom. I wanted..."
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"...you just look at the Bible, just read the Bible, there's contradictions. And for the Jews believe, oh no, the Bible is the word..."
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"in the 19th century in Warsaw, all the top lawyers in Warsaw are Frankists, okay? Because Franks don't teach you how to think for..."
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"...pagan, both enlightened as well as reactionary. And because of these contradictions, it leads to many rebellions and revolutions throughout Russian history. One was..."
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"But in 1853 and 1856, after Russia loses the Crimean War, Russia understands that It is backward and agricultural compared with Europe. So Alexander..."
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"So because of these two pressures, it creates contradictions in your society. And these contradictions force you to balance these contradictions, which leads to..."
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"different social groups now who want a greater say in government, but then you have this hierarchy of, like, clergy, nobility, and bureaucrats who..."
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"believing in God the entire point of making sacrifices to your gods is to have more wealth in life right how do you know..."
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"...money than God, all right? So how do we explain this contradiction? How is it the Catholic Church was able to amass so much..."
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"Okay? That said there are certain problems with the tradition. The first is it's contradictory. When you read the Bible it's always contradicting itself...."
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"If you believe that you are the chosen people and you believe that Yahweh is only true God then why are you being persecuted..."
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"In the Bible, Jesus is the Son of God. And there's a conflict between God and humanity. Remember, we humans committed the original sin...."
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