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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · conspiracy and assassination · women learning vice · wolf among pastors · theatre and performance · superstition vs reason · sultan’s mother’s scheming · silver filings trick · public obscene performances · pretended religious conversion · myth and the gods of the nations
Usually: censure (5) · indignation (3) · argument (2) · narrative (2) · temptation (2) · dialogue (1) · letter or document (1) · betrayal (1) · crisis of belief (1) · deception discovered (1)
“But our Lord does not mean, when we see a wolf, under the colour and appearance of a pastor, scattering his flock, that we should quail in silence through fear of speaking evil of him.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · observation
“You would have yourselves stoned by the people if you taught them impure morality. Men are so made that they want to do evil, but that they do not want it preached to them.” Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary · observation
Calvin warns Madame not to trust François’s doctrine, accusing him of preaching for profit, changing behavior to avoid trouble, and using Scripture to serve ambition rather than God.
her ability. Clement Marot addresses her in several of his poems, and the learned author, Lilio Gregorio Gyraldi, dedicates to her the second book of his *History of the Gods*. Touching Master François, to speak soberly, I would to a certainty put you upon your guard not to confide too unreservedly in his doctrine. Should I do so, I need have no reason to fear, that mayhap you may entertain some bad opinion of me, a…
Using Scipio Nasica as a hypothetical judge, Augustine argues that no virtuous Roman would want his mother honored as Cybele’s goddess with shameless rites, aiming to show the cult’s deceit.
6. *That the gods of the pagans never inculcated holiness of life.* This is the reason why those divinities quite neglected the lives and morals of the cities and nations who worshipped them, and threw no dreadful prohibition in their way to hinder them from becoming utterly corrupt, and to preserve them from those terrible and detestable evils which visit not harvests and vintages, not house and possessions, not th…
Augustine argues that pagan mystery rites of Caelestis/Coelestis mix obscene theatre with religious worship, teaching women and men to tolerate vice while presenting “secret” lessons only as deceptive bait.
deceit? For the secret precepts are given as a sop to the virtuous, who are few in number; the wicked examples are exhibited to encourage the vicious, who are countless. Where and when those initiated in the mysteries of Cœlestis received any good instructions, we know not. What we do know is, that before her shrine, in which her image is set, and amidst a vast crowd gathering from all quarters, and standing closely…
Constance sails away, while the Sultan’s mother orders a plot to prevent the marriage by pretending to embrace Christianity until she can trap and kill the Christians at a feast.
Namely* to folk of high condition, *especially Not *when a root is of a birth y-know?* *when the nativity is known* Alas! we be too lewed*, or too slow. *ignorant To ship was brought this woeful faire maid Solemnely, with every circumstance: “Now Jesus Christ be with you all,” she said. There is no more,but “Farewell, fair Constance.” She *pained her* to make good countenance. *made an effort* And forth…
The canon’s accomplice sets a false crucible setup using decoy coals and silver filings so the priest unknowingly performs alchemical steps over a concealed trick.
All, as he bade, fulfilled was in deed. This ilke servant right anon out yede,* *went And his master y-shut the door anon, And to their labour speedily they gon. This priest, at this cursed canon’s biddIng, Upon the fire anon he set this thing, And blew the fire, and busied him full fast. And this canon into the croslet cast A powder, I know not whereof it was Y-made, either of chalk, either of glass, Or somewhat el…
A dialogue between Bambabef, a fakir, and Ouang, Confucius’s disciple, debates whether religious teachers should deceive people with superstition, with Ouang arguing for truth without harmful fables.
BAMBABEF: We must imitate the Supreme Being who does not show us things as they are; he makes us see the sun in a diameter of two or three feet, although this star is a million times bigger than the earth; he makes us see the moon and the stars set on the same blue background, whereas they are at different depths. He requires that a square tower shall appear round to us from a distance; he requires that fire shall s…