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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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Voltaire's Campaign in France Is a Success

John Calle talks about Voltaire's response to the execution of an innocent man. He says that in a time when Protestantism has no legal sanction, Voltaire was able to take up the case. And he argues that his horror at the fate of this innocent man is profoundly reflective of the fact that at the center of Christian culture is the figure of Christ on the cross.

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