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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Let's appreciate what's going on, okay? In the year 1300, if you go to your priest and say to him, how do we know..."
He says that in the year 1300 a priest would likely answer faith questions by accusing the questioner of speaking for Satan, which is why Dante staging such inquiry in heaven is so radical.
He says that near the year 1300 this kind of reasoning about faith would count as revolutionary, especially because Dante stages it in heaven through Peter rather than in a university disputation.
"Let's appreciate what's going on, okay? In the year 1300, if you go to your priest and say to him, how do we know..."
"Yeah, maybe the Satan has taken control of you, right? Maybe you're speaking for Satan. That's literally what they would say to you. Right?..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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