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The Inquisitor says most people cannot endure Jesus terrible gifts, so the church has a right to preach mystery and blind obedience instead of free judgment.
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Mystery
Because the pyramid had to appear as God on earth, Jiang argues its builders would preserve mystery by destroying models or records so later people saw it as a divine gift rather than a reproducible technique.
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Because the pyramid had to appear as God on earth, Jiang argues its builders would preserve mystery by destroying models or records so later people saw it as a divine gift rather than a reproducible technique.
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Symbols can make content mysterious, sacred, or divine by functioning as signs from the gods or the spirit world.
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Mystery makes things sacred and divine; childbirth becomes sacred because it was mysterious, and women become sacred because they give birth.
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"Okay, so what we're saying again is your freedom is only good for the minority of people who can think for themselves, who aspire..."
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"...elect and for the elect? But if so, it is a mystery, and we cannot understand it. And if it is a mystery, we..."
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"Okay, all right. So what he's saying is this, okay? I understand Christianity is complete chaos, okay? But this complete chaos means people will..."
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"We have corrected thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery, and authority, immensely joy that they were again led like sheep, and..."
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"...pyramids represented God and Earth, right? So there has to be mystery and secrecy around the building of the pyramid, right? So as I..."
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"Excuse me? To keep the content mysterious. Okay, that's interesting. Okay? To keep the content mysterious. And so where do these symbols come from?..."
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"Do you understand? Okay. So another theory, okay, again, we don't know. Okay? No one knows. But like, let's look at different theories. Another..."
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"So you just have to use a symbol to represent it. Okay? Which means what? Which means that each picture is a mythology. It's..."
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"The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then..."
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"...art. The last thing is these symbols are mysterious. Right? And mystery makes things sacred and divine. Right? So back to childbirth. Childbirth is..."
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"Okay? So back then we believed that for most of human history either we were egalitarian meaning like men and women were equal than..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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