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The Christian explanation treats Paul as the organizer who allowed Jesus' truth to spread, analogous to Ray Kroc franchising McDonald's.
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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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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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"All right. The other question then is why is he focusing on organization? Okay? Why is he focusing on organization? The heart of religion..."
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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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"...convince small business owners to invest in McDonald's, to buy the franchise on McDonald's by spreading the idea of the gospel of wealth."
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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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