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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "is you shall have no other god before me and celebrities basically make themselves idols that they are literally called idols um unless they..."
The student's answer to Jiang's fame question is that celebrity normally becomes idolatry, but a famous person who directs attention toward God could function more like a prophet than an idol.
The remote question suggests that celebrity can be spiritually dangerous even when the message is right because followers may surrender their own imaginative judgment and simply obey the idol.
"is you shall have no other god before me and celebrities basically make themselves idols that they are literally called idols um unless they..."
"just a question from jimmy saying if you don't use your own imagination which is the most inspiring imagination and maybe the problem with..."
"...the story of Saint Stephen, who is stoned to death for idolatry by the Jews in Jerusalem. He was the first martyr of the..."
"...have, I mean, Dante is serious Catholic. Catholic are not against idolatry from objects. I think he might well have put the knife right..."
"...of the population that was otherwise kind of divided by an idolatry."
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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