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the obsession with personal celebrity that now seemed to possess American youth.
the modern “biohazard” symbol had become a global brand that conveyed danger in every language.
“It’s a Latin mnemonic invented by the Vatican in the Middle Ages to remind Christians of the Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.”
“Saligia is representative of the collective sins of mankind … which, according to medieval religious indoctrination—” “Was the reason God punished the world with the Black Death,”
You shall leave everything you love most, Dante wrote of banishment. This is the arrow that the bow of exile shoots first.
Cf Abraham Genesis 12:1
The work became such a pillar of Italian culture that Dante’s writing style has been credited with nothing less than the codification of the modern Italian language.”
“Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?”
The problem is that our genetic makeup is like a house of cards—each piece connected to and supported by countless others—often in ways we don’t understand.
“We’re tinkering with a process that took aeons to build.
“Sounds eerily like eugenics,”
trying to imagine the intricacies of each person’s life. The masses are made up of individuals.
Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther had spoken those words in the sixteenth century,
