Jiang says the intention of homosexual networks is not evil in itself; persecution drives them into secret-society behavior that can then solidify into hierarchy and institutional infiltration.
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Persecution
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Jiang uses the read-aloud comment to characterize Dante as a prophet whose life is marked by alienation, persecution, and exile.
Jiang argues that prophets become memorable through persecution, using Moses and Jesus as examples and treating Dante's suffering as part of that same prophetic pattern.
He says Dante accepts persecution because he reads it as both God's will and God's love for him.
Jiang summarizes Isaiah as a persecuted prophet and generalizes the point into a rule that prophets are persecuted.
A student frames the central objection to providence as the case of Dante's persecutors: if God foreknows their evil, it becomes difficult to separate foreknowledge from planning.
The closing part of Statius's confession says his sympathy for persecuted Christians and their honest practices made every rival sect unattractive to him.
Jiang says persecution intensifies messianic faith: Trump interprets opposition from generals, media, courts, and foreign elites as a divine test that strengthens his mission.
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"like being being a homosexual it's about like having a same vision so you can like uh assemble a group together like secret society..."
"the bureaucracy yeah no i i again i don't think the intention is evil i just think they want to they just want to..."
"yes and i also have heard that uh in homosexual society uh the people they got their some people they got their right to..."
"of dante as a prophet okay as a social critic uh as someone who is telling people that divine vengeance is coming uh this..."
"...this is the life of a prophet one of constant alienation persecution and exile all right and there's no other way um he chose..."
"and you've led the your people for 40 years across the desert you freed them from the pharaoh and then you go to jerusalem..."
"Okay, so Isaiah is a prophet, who was persecuted, and what Isaiah says is that all prophets will be persecuted. Okay? All right, I..."
"so follow -up question so if god has a plan and god allows you to use your free will to turn away the let's..."
"them to commit do what they did in that case how did god know about it okay okay you're assuming"
"like how how god knew that what the bad guys were gonna do if the bad guys really had free will and if they..."
"own laments accompanied their grief, and while I could, as long as I had life, I helped them, and their honest practices made me..."
"know, Jews and creating hatred in order to create a sort of, like, ethnic identity for themselves. So I'm not sure how much you..."
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