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Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age (#179)

You Have Permission

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The Great Hero in Saint of All That John Mure

I think that you know one of the things I heard in your comments Dan was and this is something i've actually been working on this week because i'm doing a book A book about this as well as uh this class. You know the currents of american culture Kind of lend themselves to a saintless sort of world And so what you just described about seattle i think about you know 19th century people getting in their wagons and heading west and the frontier. Yeah, yeah The the rugged individual setting out on the frontier.

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