clear medieval insight

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• Without fail, [the vice of sodomy] brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. It pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, and gives entrance to the devil, the stimulator of lust.

                                          

         St Peter Damian,  
                11th century benedictine theologian

                                     

why bother

If fate--and they say there is such a law--
punishes criminals,  
it has its penalty also for the lovers of good.
The former it throttles,
the latter it spits upon.
The former end in bitter torment,
the latter---in ignominy.


                   Lev Shestov





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