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Renaissance Christianity assumed that nobody was ever pure — everybody sins constantly, repents, and sins again — which is why its hypocrisy looks so strange to us.
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
The assumption is everybody sins all the time. There is no such thing as purity. Everybody sins every 5 minutes.
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Watch from 1:11:30 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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