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...lies original: "mendaciis." This completes the thought from the previous page regarding the "shameful lies" Arnold allegedly heaps upon the clergy., he burdens them; often he even relates such tales that they cannot prove. Most frequently, he defiles things correctly stated with such unspeakable and manifest calumnies calumnies: False and malicious statements designed to damage a person's reputation; slanders., driven by his own unbridled lust for making accusations, that if you were to remove Arnold’s sycophantic teeth original: "dentes Arnoldi sycophanticos." A metaphor for Arnold's biting, malicious, and slanderous writing style., you would seem to have stripped the very substance of the argument from Arnold's book. Finally, he conducts himself in such a way that it is obvious to anyone that his primary goal has been to spread, support, and amplify Libertinism Libertinism: In this period, a pejorative term for a perceived lack of religious or moral restraint, often associated with radical freethinkers who rejected church authority.. For every single point he makes concerning the worship of GOD original: "DEI cultu." aims toward this...