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The PloughRead: Two Thousand Years of Christian Strangeness by Tom Holland

Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

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The Third Right to Evil in Christianity

I believe you spent years studying, for instance, ancient Sparta, Julius Caesar. And to at least, in its better moments, Christianity's also reconfigured how people think about people who are lower down the scale. Of course, because the last shall be first. I cited Caesar in Gaul, who is said to have slaughtered a million Gauls and enslaved another million. For Caesar, not only is he kind of unperturbed by that, he's positively glorious in it. Same with Leonidus, the king who dies at Thermopylae,. It's the absolute archetype of doomed heroism.

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