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Jiang says the two central Franciscan dilemmas are internal ego-and-fear resistance to true poverty and external social bribery by people who want to share in perceived holiness.
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Holiness
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to give you money so that they can share in your holiness and over time that accumulates"
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He says once a poverty order is widely seen as holy, the surrounding world will try to bribe it with money so others can participate in that holiness, and over time the order becomes corrupt like everyone else.
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The Holy Roman Empire was holy only as pageantry: pope and king benefited from pretending the church was in charge because the performance conferred legitimacy and unity.
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"...to give you money so that they can share in your holiness and over time that accumulates"
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"and you just become just as corrupt as everyone else okay so these are the two central dilemmas and the question then is how..."
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"You need someone to imagine the idea before you can actually implement it on earth. All right. So let me conclude by going back..."
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"And after Charlemagne what we'll see is that they don't get along. Because the pope insists on having power over the emperor. The emperor..."
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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