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The quoted preaching passage says Christ sent his first followers to speak truth rather than idle stories, and that false preaching spreads credulity.
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Credulity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So that below, though not asleep, men dream, speaking in good faith or in bad, the last, however, merits greater blame and shame. Below,..."
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The quoted passage says false preaching and indulgence-selling exploit worldly credulity and replace gospel truth with lies and comic performance.
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Greg's widow story begins as an example of a desperate person being told to perform healing authority through prayer and appearance, setting up a Frankist lesson about exploiting the world's credulity.
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"So that below, though not asleep, men dream, speaking in good faith or in bad, the last, however, merits greater blame and shame. Below,..."
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"indians too saw that eclipse such fables shouted through the year from pulpits some here some there outnumber even all the lapos and the..."
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"the world's credulity increases so that people throng to every indulgence backed by no authority and no authority and this allows the antonines to..."
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"you have written on your sub stack so there was a certain widow who had many children she came to a rabbi asking him..."
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"...it's just gotten so ridiculous that believing it just stretches the credulity. I mean, the MAGA movement, the Trumpers, it was solely based on..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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