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Jiang defines simony as the church's profitable sale of holy relics, many of them fake, to the highest bidder.
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Holy relics
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"...it's very common at this time for the church to sell holy relics to people and this was very profitable right because this is..."
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"...and then you have a thief who, who, who steals a holy relic and then someone else is blamed. Okay. And as we discussed,..."
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"cryptocurrency can you explain well right the holy relic is in itself well if if cap you know if the richest people on the..."
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"...very similar to the imperial bureaucracy of China, right? They're selling holy relics. Priests are not really divine. They get married. They sell their..."
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"...is called simony. Then you have something called the selling of holy relics. So again, at this time, everyone's very superstitious."
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