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Livy’s Sabine account reframes abduction as eventual reconciliation and love, which Jiang treats as disgusting blame-shifting propaganda.
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Rape
He frames City of God as an ancestral blueprint for the Catholic Church and introduces Augustine's rape argument as an imperial response to chastity, suicide, and population order.
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He frames City of God as an ancestral blueprint for the Catholic Church and introduces Augustine's rape argument as an imperial response to chastity, suicide, and population order.
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He reads Augustine as arguing that suicide is worse than rape because humans are God's property and killing oneself offends God.
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"The abducted maidens were quite as despondent and indignant. Romulus, however, went around in person and pointed out to them that it was all..."
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"...is a pretty memorable event in Roman history. It's called the Rape of the Sabine Woman. Okay. And these are different artworks depicting the..."
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"Then it was that the Sabine women whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly..."
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"The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange..."
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"He's saying that God is not guilty. In fact, first of all, we didn't make a mistake. We are the mistake, all right? We..."
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"...lot about in the city of God is the idea of rape. And so what's happening throughout this time, and what was very common,..."
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"...never kill yourself. Why? Because murder is a worse crime than rape. Also, rape is something that happens in the mind. It's not real...."
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"every one of us is God's property we are not free of ourselves we are God's property therefore when we kill ourselves we are..."
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"...children of respected, high -minded puritanical families fall victim to real rape much more frequently than others had dared to suspect. Okay."
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"Let me say this. Rape is a really common phenomenon, especially among higher society, okay? Keep on going."
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"Okay. So what he's saying is, first of all, rape is very common and these children are saying the same thing, okay? Keep on..."
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"So you mentioned that this kind of rape is frequently occurred in upper class. Why does it not so frequently in the lower class?"
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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