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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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franchise model
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Glossary
Jiang's analogy for Paul's scaling of Jesus' movement through repeatable organization and persuasion.
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diagnosis
Jiang says the system does not care whether slaves discover after death that the promise failed because extraction happens while they live.
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model
Paul's real customers are patriarchs who fund and force conversion, not the ordinary slaves who receive the doctrine.
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diagnosis
The Ray Kroc analogy frames Paul as a franchiser who turns Jesus into an empire by selling investment in a standardized religious brand.
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"Okay, so this is why you must obey Him completely, because now you are guaranteed access to heaven, eternal paradise, okay? Pretty good deal,..."
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"And so while the Jews are printing, waiting for a Messiah of war, Paul says, no, no, Jesus was a Messiah of peace, okay?..."
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"...open McDonald's around America and the world. This is called the franchise model. Okay? The franchise model. The franchise model. And so the brothers..."
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"...though, we discussed this last class, is that Christianity, it's a franchise model. So, different churches teach different things. And so, Christianity is a..."
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"...families control a particular province. Okay? So it's more like a franchise model rather than a strict hierarchy. This is important because Paul will..."
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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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