Scott Alexander (author/host)
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That is, if it pleased God.
Asked if the voice told her in her youth to hate the Burgundians, she answered that since she had known that the voices were for the king of France, she did not like the Burgundians.
She said the Burgundians will have war unless they do as they ought.
She knows it from her voice.
Asked whether in her youth she had any great intention of defeating the Burgundians, she answered that she had a great desire and will for her king to have his kingdom.
Did she say that God, who is love, told her to hate the party of the Burgundians?
Did she intend to defeat them prior to her revelation?
Did she want them dead?
Well, yes, but only if it pleases God.
Her judges are Burgundians.
Quote She would not have known how to do it.
Asked if she ever put the sword on the altar, and if she did so to bring it better fortune, she answered no as far as she knew.
Asked if she ever prayed for her sword to have better fortune, she answered, It is well to know that I could have wished my armour, in French, mon arnoir, to have good fortune.
Blessing it is heretical because she's not a priest.
Going to effort to have it blessed might be idolatry if you really want to stretch it, and praying to be better at killing people is kind of sinful.
"...asked whether, since her voices had told her that in the end she should go to paradise, she had felt assured of her salvation, and of not being damned in hell, she answered that she firmly believed what the voices told her, namely that she would be saved, as firmly as if she was already there.