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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 28 April 2014 01:22:41PM *  0 points [-]

I would be interested in how they understand "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit," and the deadly sin of Acedia. But that's not exactly a question of general interest.


More generally, I am interested in the relationship between cultural context and religion (how many people remember that riding into Jerusalem on a donkey in those days is sort of like riding into LA on a Lamborghini today), but I am not sure how to phrase that in a form of a question :). I guess :

In light of how vastly cultural context changes over time, what hope is there for something timeless in religion?