HeyJared[Notes] and "Quotes" by Arnie Berg
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I’ve been reading…“Where dignity came from” (opens the original)
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“Our modern values of equality owe a lot to Greek notions of democracy and the voice of the people, and Roman governance through an organized senate; but the Western notion of the inherent dignity of each individual comes from the Christians, their best teachings and reasonings.”Nijay Gupta, Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling (2024)<div class="caption
I’ve been reading…“Truth as a matter of repetition” (opens the original)
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“To this aversion of the intellectual elite for official historiography … must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts, that man may be free to change his own past at will, and that the difference between trut
I’ve been reading…“Read the idols” (opens the original)
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“The best way to understand people is to examine the idols they worship, and the stories they tell themselves.”Molly Worthen, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History (2025) <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UdaB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
Bonus Post: Notable Quote from December 2025: The Latter Rain Movement (opens the original)
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Illuminating Insight: A reading that can be wrong (opens the original)
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