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Crusaders are effective and abusive because religious devotion energizes them and teaches them to see Muslims and Jews literally as demons.
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Massacre
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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Jiang contrasts Christian celebration of Jerusalem's 1099 massacre with Saladin's later peaceful taking of the city.
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Caesar's intended clemency collides with soldiers who want the war over; at one battle in Africa, veterans massacre enemies to ensure they cannot fight again.
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"Okay, so this is Pope Urban II saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. If you fight a demon, it doesn't..."
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"...And unfortunately, they're too energetic, so they have a tendency to massacre people when they succeed because they literally see the Muslims and the..."
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"But because of their religious fanaticism, they will maintain these Crusader States for the next 20 years, okay? So the yellow are Crusader States...."
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"He basically said, Vinni, vedi, vici. Okay? Beautiful Latin. The most powerful Latin phrase ever spoken in human history. It means, I came, I..."
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"...no longer straight that flow now formed around then just as massacres when they set aside a the borrowed likeness in which they hide..."
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"...they think that this war is about having a twelfth iman, massacres, and so on. And the Shia, who is basically the messiah, will..."
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"...not allowed to settle within the Three Mile radius, a general massacre of the Jewish population ensued. The massacre devastated the Jewish communities of..."
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"...forced to go east, okay? And often, there are lots of massacres as well, okay? So the black spots, okay, the squares, the skull..."
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"...into prominence in the 70s when he uncovered the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War. He was the first journalist to have the..."
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"...him, he decides that he has to reclaim Jerusalem and basically massacre all the Jews. So at this time in history, it seemed all..."
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"...can kill a civilization, you can destroy a city, you can massacre people, but you cannot destroy the desire for unity of will because..."
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"Okay? There are massacres and atrocities on both sides. Um on May uh 31st the French takes command of the National Assembly. This is..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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