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...social survey Heaven: A History, Colleen McDannell and Bernard Lang observe that over two millenniums human conceptions of heaven tended to alternate between God-centered visions and more humanist arrangements focused primarily on the reunion and interactions of the sainted dead. Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the Scholastics or passionately by the mystical school of love, expanded St. Augustine's idea of the Beatific Vision, the saints' rapturous and direct communion with God. The Renaissance Catholic heaven more resembled an ongoing human-to-human celebration presided over by the Virgin Mary. But Protestant reformers of the 1500s reinstated a vision...
City Councillor Anthony D. Galluc- cio joined Lang in arguing that regulating safety is a matter of sufficient inspections, not "bright-line" rules that link car age directly to safety...
Commission Chair Benjamin C. Barnes also cited public safety as the sole motive behind the rule, and not concerns of cab appearance, which Lang said was an additional motive for the rule...
...They're back-pedaling," Lang said. "They're acting like [last year's exemptions based on safety] are a gratuity...
After the meeting, Lang told the commission that the drivers put tremendous work into keeping their cars washed, waxed, polished and safe...