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John Vervaeke & Jonathan Pageau: Decoding the Demons

Decoding the Gurus

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The Antithesis of Medieval Religious Thinking

There's always a way to interpret religious scriptures and traditional concepts in a way which makes them acceptable within a contemporary free and work. To me it's fine to do that but you should recognize that what you're doing is a symbolic interpretivism not just an exercise in discussing fiction. The sense makers are entirely vulnerable to straight up medieval religious thinking because to them it's all ideas these are all it's all the rich tapestryThese are just threads that conform part of a greater new understanding of the whole there is no place for for disagreement really or like pinning people down.

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