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“Immediately after his enthronement [in 1049, Pope Leo IX] held a synod in the Lateran Palace condemning simony and clerical marriage… he also pursued simony with unprecedented directness, so intimidating the bishop of Sutri (a local see about 30 miles (50km) from Rome) with a face-to-face accusation that the unfortunate bishop dropped dead on the spot” (p. 463).

Romans 10:9

ὅτι ἐὰν ὁμολογήσῃς ἐν τῷ στόματί σου κύριον Ἰησοῦν καὶ πιστεύ- σῃς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅτι ὁ θεὸς αὐτὸν ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, σωθήσῃ.

"[A]s to the a priori synthetic judgment of Kant, it is nothing more than the mental dummy of being’s existential causality" (p. 185).

"Skepticism is a philosophical disease which either moralism or pseudo-mysticism can ease, but for which there is no other cure than to come back to the science of being as being, namely, metaphysics" (1–2)

The much-anticipated passage from capitalism to socialism had been theorized ad nauseam in academies, universities and coffee bars from Belgrade to Berkeley; but no-one had thought to offer a blueprint for the transition from socialism to capitalism.

Go Bears

“The populace turned to theology and gangsterism.”

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