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The Church’s legitimacy problems include Muslim control of the Holy Land, Muslim Spain’s wealth and innovation, the 1054 split, corruption, and divine-spark religious rebellion.
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Eastern Orthodox
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"And the kings are the ones who can appoint leaders of the church as well, okay? So there's this negotiation going on between the..."
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"...more wealthy and innovative than the rest of Europe. 1054, the Eastern Orthodox Church, led by the Byzantines, break with the Catholic Church, okay?..."
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"...the official church of the new religion. Today we call it Eastern Orthodox, but back then it was just the Catholic Church. Okay? And..."
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"...what's the difference between the Catholic Church, the Protestants, and the Eastern Orthodox? So the Eastern Orthodox is the Church of Augustine. It didn't..."
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"...Germans have the Catholic Church. The Russians have something called the Eastern Orthodox Church. This sounds similar, but what I will show you as..."
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"...about 1 billion people, okay? Constantinople becomes the basis of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is Eastern Europe, okay? So..."
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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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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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