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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Phallus Connection

Crowley thought that his mission was not just to throw off the shackles of oppressive morality and Christianity, but also to celebrate like gender diversity and sexual diversity. And do you see this in Anton Levey's stuff too, like in the Church of Satan? They're all about getting rid of the binary of any kind, like all binary. That's what he was doing. He was sort of changing his reality by changing his personas. Well, it is interesting that a lot of these guys and again, that's very un-Christian. But as I say, ultimate actor, I do think that he was kind of a genius actor.

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