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Jiang reads La Commedia as a response to Virgil's Aeneid and to a Catholic Church model built around duty, piety, obedience, institutional mediation, and suspicion of love.
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Catholic Church
Jiang reads La Commedia as a response to Virgil's Aeneid and to a Catholic Church model built around duty, piety, obedience, institutional mediation, and suspicion of love.
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The Catholic Church, in Jiang's interpretation, is based not on the Bible but on the Aeneid's emotional structure.
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Jiang interprets La Commedia as a response to Virgil's Aeneid and to Catholic Church authority, with love placed as God itself.
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Jiang says the Aeneid emphasizes piety, obedience, love as disease, hatred, and empire, thereby creating emotional conditions for hell and for the Catholic Church.
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Jiang links the Aeneid's imperial imagination to the Catholic millennium: elite children memorized Virgil, learned to see through the Aeneid, and lived under a conformist world that Dante would later break open.
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Western Europe remains poor, fragmented, and naturally defended by barriers, so the Catholic Church rather than an imperial bureaucracy becomes the organizing power.
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Roman noble families that adapted by investing early in Catholic religion survive as what Jiang calls Black nobility.
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The Catholic Church is framed through Dostoevsky as an institution that pretends to worship Jesus while actually worshiping Satan by enforcing order for people who want to be sheep.
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"...dominant literature in Europe. And it was the foundation for the Catholic Church. So remember, when we read the Iliad, the Iliad is fundamentally..."
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"...to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot of these conflicts...."
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"...argue that with the Inead, Virgil created the conditions for the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not based on the Bible. It's based..."
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"...in Europe. And it was the foundation. The foundation for the Catholic Church. Okay? So remember when we read the Iliad, the Iliad is..."
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"...to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot of these conflicts...."
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"...argue, that with the Inayat, Virgil created the conditions for the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not based on the Bible, it's based..."
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"...Iliad will create the Roman Empire which will then become the Catholic Church And the Catholic Church will rule for over a thousand years...."
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"...Okay, and thought they will destroy the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church with his Masterpiece the divine comedy we will spend the rest..."
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"Which is very, very impressive, okay? And as I said, it's very wealthy. And so, therefore, it's really able to dominate the world through..."
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"And so, the power that emerges is actually the Catholic Church. Western Europe increases in power and Eastern Europe decreases in power, the Catholic..."
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"...by embracing Catholic religion. Okay? By being early investors in the Catholic Church, and as such, they will continue on to today. We call..."
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"will love this idea but what about the millions of other people who just want to like live normal lives what can we do..."
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