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The Catholic Church as a hierarchical salvation administration whose authority comes from God rather than human rulers.
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divine bureaucracy
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The Church extracts more than labor because it demands the soul and can threaten eternal hell rather than mere death.
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"These are different urban centers of Europe at this time, and they engage mainly in trade. Okay. So the church becomes a much more..."
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"...what makes the Catholic Church so powerful? Well, it becomes a divine bureaucracy, okay? And what it does is establish a very strict hierarchy...."
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"You're not asked to question it. You just have to memorize it. There are lots of rituals to the Catholic Church. Some of these..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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