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Unregistered 253: Paul VanderKlay

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The Relationship Between Desire and Over Desire

There's a long discussion, um, about what'd you call it? Excess pleasure or desire. And asceticism basically said, why do ascetics have vows of chastity and poverty, um, celibacy? Well, because they want to master their desires. The irony about the monastic movement was that everyone was just so simply impressed by for a while with these people living so focused for Christ. People didn't trust monks anymore because it just looked endlessly corrupt.

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