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The Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy despite Jesus’s anti-rich teaching, because Western Europe’s growing population, trade, cities, climate, and technology enrich the institution.
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The Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy despite Jesus’s anti-rich teaching, because Western Europe’s growing population, trade, cities, climate, and technology enrich the institution.
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"Then Jesus said to his disciples, Assuredly, I said to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of..."
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"So as I keep on telling you, Jesus himself was very anti -rich, okay? He believed that the rich people, because they were too..."
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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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