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It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
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Paterson
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