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Robespierre's death transforms him into scapegoat, martyr, and paragon of virtue; the guilt of killing him is transferred into renewed revolutionary sacrifice.
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Martyr
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...
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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...
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"And so even though the French Revolution was a revolution of reason when they're trying to reject the Christian faith, the mythology is still..."
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"second thing that happens is he becomes a martyr for the revolution he died in order to save the revolution Robespierre said to the..."
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"...for idolatry by the Jews in Jerusalem. He was the first martyr of the Christian tradition. You will find this in the Acts of..."
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"greatest glory is to be a martyr the greatest glory is to die for your nation and for god so they all these young..."
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"...50 leaders. Yeah. These are, they're not going to, they're a martyr type community. Like, you know how you ever go against the company..."
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"...he believes in democracy. And so he chose to be a martyr. And so now he's in prison."
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"...afraid to die they believe it is the highest honor to martyr yourself for the higher good and uh and the clear example of..."
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"...out the culture of martyrdom the way they would put the martyrs uh pictures on the walls and at many places it did this..."
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"...the Americans and Israelis, they are motivated to seek vengeance, to martyr themselves for the greater good, to seek eternal paradise."
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"...there's a lot of mythology around Paul, how he was a martyr who went around the world in order to spread Christianity, okay?"
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"...it fills the followers with divine energy as well they become martyrs and their"
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"...happened the moment he killed himself he became a scapegoat a martyr and a paragon of virtue a hero to the people people will..."
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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...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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After the ceasefire announcement, Jiang refuses to read the moment as peace.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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