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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.

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  1. 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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