Sublime

The devotee boasted that he would never abandon the faith; and therefore he persecuted for the faith. But the doctor of science actually boasts that he will always abandon a hypothesis; and yet he persecutes for the hypothesis. The Inquisitor violently enforced his creed, because it was unchangeable. The savant enforces it violently because he may

The religious nature of the Uprising was becoming immediately apparent. British men and women who had converted to Islam were invariably spared, yet all Indian converts to Christianity—Hindu or Muslim—were sought out and hunted down.

The Rapture was the Plymouth Brethren’s gift to Christendom way back in the 1830s.

En conclusion, Grotius, d’un côté, rend hommage au « peuple libre105 » qui, en Hollande, s’est servi de son droit de résistance pour se débarrasser du joug d’un prince despotique106, et, de l’autre, il justifie sans problème l’esclavage et même cette sorte de chasse aux « bêtes sauvages » menée en Amérique contre les Peaux-Rouges.

The Jacobin could tell you not only the system he would rebel against, but (what was more important) the system he would NOT rebel against, the system he would trust. But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything.

14 “Those who withhold[17] kindness from a friend forsake the fear of the Almighty.[18]

Do you (now) forbid us the worship of what our fathers worshipped?

with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.