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I have a lengthy story to go with this one, but I can't get my mind around polishing/finishing it. The Ranters were a brief religious or quasi-religious, as well as very political (anti-establishment) movement, active in 17th century England. They preached a derailed and dissolute lifestyle as the road toward salvation. As pantheists, who believed that 'God' is in fact the Universe itself, and that everything that exists is permeated by His Divine Love and Powers ('energies', in modern terms), they felt they had found ways to connect with this Divine Source, which was indeed through fornication, debauchery, and doing everything the official God forbids (except for murder). Unfortunately, once sobered up in jail, their loudmouth ideologists were usually quick to renounce their 'false teachings' and show repentance for their 'aberration', which may perhaps serve to show that bravery fueled by alcohol and similar means is really worth zilch. The phenomenon of medieval pantheism as such is still quite interesting, certainly in combination with practices like ecstatic dancing, 'revelation', and 'prophecy'. It's where Christianity meets outright paganism, almost always resulting in some bizarre product, like Ranterism.

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I have a lengthy story to go with this one, but I can't get my mind around polishing/finishing it. The Ranters were a brief religious or quasi-religious, as well as very political (anti-establishment) movement, active in 17th century England. They preached a derailed and dissolute lifestyle as the road toward salvation. As pantheists, who believed that 'God' is in fact the Universe itself, and that everything that exists is permeated by His Divine Love and Powers ('energies', in modern terms), they felt they had found ways to connect with this Divine Source, which was indeed through fornication, debauchery, and doing everything the official God forbids (except for murder). Unfortunately, once sobered up in jail, their loudmouth ideologists were usually quick to renounce their 'false teachings' and show repentance for their 'aberration', which may perhaps serve to show that bravery fueled by alcohol and similar means is really worth zilch. The phenomenon of medieval pantheism as such is still quite interesting, certainly in combination with practices like ecstatic dancing, 'revelation', and 'prophecy'. It's where Christianity meets outright paganism, almost always resulting in some bizarre product, like Ranterism.