287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism
The Symbolic World
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The Stripping of the Alters
In traditional Christianity, there's so much emphasis placed on Holy Week or Passion Week and on Easter or Posca. In our Universal History series, we've been mainly focused on these kinds of stories. How did people groups as they converted nest their identity within the Christian and Roman story even when they themselves maybe fell outside of the empire? And just to emphasize again, before we get into the next section, is that these identities, they stack or they nest. If you don't understand this, then you will make the mistake, which as I'm going to argue, is basically the mistake of 19th and 20th century nationalism.
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