Jiang argues that the decisive question is not whether isolated people can be creative, but whether society is tolerant, generous, and loving enough to allow human creativity to flourish broadly.
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Tolerance
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He says autistic children are often treated as problems because limited emotional regulation and classroom noise are medicalized instead of being met with patience or love.
The Polish-Lithuanian refuge initially offers tolerance but becomes another site of Jewish insecurity through invasion and war.
Before crusading violence, Jiang presents Muslim-controlled Jerusalem after 638 as open and inclusive for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Jiang argues that governing Jerusalem forced the Templars to work with Jews and Muslims, learn from them, and become more tolerant, rational, and cosmopolitan than the church bureaucracy.
Jiang argues that pre-modern pagan cultures could be more tolerant than modern nation-state narratives admit because they did not classify homosexuality, race, and minority status in the same rigid modern way.
In Jiang's reconstruction, Muhammad's law promised equality, mercy, tolerance, openness, and divine justice.
Ordinary ancient households are described as multi-religious, with people practicing the faiths of family, neighbors, spouses, and rulers as a way of getting along.
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"Okay, this is a really good point. Yes, it is true that in Divine Comedy, I say that the way to activate our love,..."
"I have researched autistic children. They're not that different from you and me. They just have limited emotional regulation, meaning that they make noises..."
"Okay? Okay, so what will happen now is a lot of Jews choose to settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth which is a new..."
"So in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. But before that, the Germans expelled the Jews in 1100, France in 1306. But before then, you..."
"The Catholic Church is an imperial bureaucracy. It only cares about maintaining orthodoxy over Europe. But the Knights Templars, they are bankers, they're traders...."
"So what the Knights Templars are doing is they're absorbing all this diverse religious belief. And as such, they become essentially free thinkers, okay?..."
"Okay. So the question then is how were these pre -modern cultures these pagan cultures tolerant? How did they perceive gays and minorities? Okay...."
"communities suppress the individual is something that we believe we have faith in it but it just is not historically true. Okay? Also remember..."
"...follow God's law. God's law demands equality. It demands mercy and tolerance. It demands openness. That is God's law. Okay? So that's Mohammed. So..."
"Okay? So he is the Messiah. He's the promised one. God has ordered him to do this. Appeared to them as a preacher. Okay?..."
"So let me explain what's happening. Okay? So remember, the Babylonians in 586, they take over Jerusalem. They burn a temple. They destroy the..."
"Okay? Because this is how people got along. Right? If you said that my God is better than your God, you will piss off..."
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