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[-] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Then I think they weren't very good scholars. I find Christian scholars like the Jesuits very talented in twisting the language and ideas until it fits their ideology.
Besides, I do think interpretation is required to read such books without taking silly interpretation shortcuts, but I'd rather have it from a secular religion history researcher.
Edit: I was thinking about this scholastic system of education from the Middle Ages that made them so good at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation

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