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Scott Alexander (author/host)

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Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

That is, if it pleased God.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

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.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

She said the Burgundians will have war unless they do as they ought.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

She knows it from her voice.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

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.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Did she say that God, who is love, told her to hate the party of the Burgundians?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Did she intend to defeat them prior to her revelation?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Did she want them dead?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Well, yes, but only if it pleases God.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Her judges are Burgundians.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Quote She would not have known how to do it.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

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.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

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.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

Blessing it is heretical because she's not a priest.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

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.

Astral Codex Ten Podcast
Your Review: Joan of Arc

"...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.