Jiang's own guess is that Dante saw Jesus as a great spiritual leader who was divine in nature, but not uniquely so, since Jiang analogizes Jesus's inspiration to Dante writing under divine possession as well.
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"...his interpretation of jesus he felt that jesus was a great spiritual leader who was divine in nature but so is dante okay does..."
"...and treat him like any other politician rather than a global spiritual leader. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Just finally, Sam, I was struck..."
"...He's an agent. He's an earthly agent of the Shabbat Lubavitch spiritual leaders. OK, Rabbi Snerson. And the third thing is that they believe..."
"...you have a billion people now that see Iran as the spiritual leader of the world because they were able to defeat the great..."
"...have church. Religion. Right? By becoming a priest. By becoming a spiritual leader. You also have merchants. Right? Commerce. You can also do it..."
"...Okay, so Jesus. Remember that Jesus is one of our great spiritual leaders and geniuses, like the Buddha. And there's a three -tier approach..."
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