Jiang says many poverty-oriented movements inside medieval Christianity began as criticisms of church wealth and were later co-opted by the Church, including the Benedictines, Dominicans, and Franciscans.
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CO Optation
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He says most of the world is effectively run out of the United States because the United States has successfully infiltrated and co-opted most countries.
The Viking Age ended when Vikings became successful enough to be absorbed into European nobility, Christianized, and turned into protectors of the same powers they had pressured.
He argues that Christianity grew by marrying itself to power through strict hierarchy, allowing it to be co-opted by the power elite.
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"in the Catholic Church yes okay all right so that's true but um something that you guys don't appreciate is there was always opposition..."
"And this is how the world works. And this is why most of the world is run out of the United States. The United..."
"So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because..."
"And, as Christians, they would convert their own followers and their own people as well. Remember, the spread of religion is usually a top..."
"Prolific. Which meant that he wrote a lot of books. It's possible he wrote hundreds of thousands of pages. And his two most famous..."
"...and corrupt, which led to massive inequality, which led to the co -optation of the political system by the elite. Both the Democratic Party..."
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