I'm reminded of a speech Joseph Raztinger gave back when he was head of the CDF about, iirc, the instruction on liberation theology. He started out by observing that pretty much every journalist who wrote about it focused on chapter 5-- the section on the practical implications. Ratzinger rolled his eyes at this (in a rhetorical sense-- I'm not sure I could imagine him physically doing that), saying basically that all these journalists were misunderstanding chapter 5 because they didn't properly read or understand the first four chapters, which laid the intellectual and theological foundation for the policy r.e. liberation theology. What I'm getting at is that Dignitatis Humanae is not just a change in policy: it's a complete argument that must be understood on its own terms before we understand why the resultant policy is what it is. That's why the thread is a read-through of DH, not just a straightforward debate.
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They were allowed to live there and follow their own gods, but were still not allowed to publicly blaspheme the God of Israel, or break any of the other laws that he laid down.
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