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clerical authority
Church authority over spiritual judgment and the soul.
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The Inquisition is modeled as a division of clerical judgment over the soul and secular power over the body, with interrogation used to find truth without direct church bloodshed.
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"...this time, there are two types of authority. There's something called clerical authority and something called secular authority. Clerical just means the Church, secular..."
"Why? Because this world is fake. Who cares, right? I'm fake, you're fake. As long as your soul is pure, that's what matters. So,..."
"And because the Dominicans were educated, they could write everything down. Okay? They could write everything down. And, they were tenacious. They were persistent...."
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