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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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The Christian Sexual Revolution

I think that what the Christian sexual revolution shows is that there are all kinds of ways that humans are capable of formulating sexual morality. The Romans had a sexual morality, it's just it was very, very different to ours. What shocks us is the idea that powerful men have the right to rape their inferiors. It took many centuries for this understanding to be instilled in the broad mass of the people. And it's been instilled so successfully that today we completely take it for granted.

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