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Galileo's Dialogue became explosive because he mocked his enemies and placed Pope Urban VIII's arguments in the mouth of Simplicitus, making a banned book into a sensation.
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Satire
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Jiang reads the Tower of Babel story as a possible Israelite satire of pyramid ambition: humans try to build up to God, fail, and are mocked or punished by God.
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"he was a very famous author, he was extremely intelligent, he thought that God loved him, okay? So as you can imagine, it was..."
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"Where he presented his argument again for the heliocentric model. Not only that, but he made fun of his enemies. So it's a dialogue,..."
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"is to take all the centralized powers of the pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which..."
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"So what he said is, listen, this book, it's a satire. It's a thought experiment. I know that the heliocentric model is wrong. And..."
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"...people, right? So another interpretation is this play, Bacchae, it's a satire on the power of Dionysus and of theatre in general, OK? It's..."
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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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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