Articles like this betray a worldview where Christianity isn’t real. Of course it doesn’t accept its truth value, I don’t mean that. I mean that it doesn’t conceive of it as something anyone truly believed. It’s just an accent in which historical figures acted out liberal scriptshttps://twitter.com/smithsonianmag/status/950846755918278659 …
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Catholicism is intrinsic to St. Joan. She didn’t become a military leader because she wanted to defy the gender circumstances of her society, she was moved as such because Jesus called her to be. If Jesus called her to be a milkmaid, she would have been a milkmaid.
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You can’t sterilize her story into a secular gender fable. To do this shows the author as a boring person. They find the most compelling thing about St. Joan to be a false narriative in which she fights for values she never held, instead of her radical abnegation of self for God.
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It's kind of like how Paglia talked about feminists in the 80s having a "nun phase", where they admired an all women space working together in an ardent communal environment, totally ignoring the spiritual reasons as to why nuns live the way they do.
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