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John Knox

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Is There a Ritual Moment When You Graduate From Edinburgh University?

John Knox was a national saint. He would really dislike that idea of some sort of form of idol worship or sense that there's some transference through a material object that it becomes like a saint. I've been much closer to John Knox than I'm comfortable with. And then also for Knox that you're, you know, he's definitely thinks that Scotland is distinctive,. You know, these treaties in 1560, Treaty of Béric, Treaty of Edinburgh and give its own separate, curk and way of doing things.

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