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Papal letters or tickets sold to reduce penalties in purgatory; Jiang treats them as bribing God.
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indulgences
Papal letters or tickets sold to reduce penalties in purgatory; Jiang treats them as bribing God.
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Church power produces corruption through indulgences, simony, relic sales, noble control, tax exemptions, and control of land, setting kings against the Church.
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Indulgences are presented as a corrupt system of bribing God to reduce punishment, provoking Luther's attack on papal authority.
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Jiang argues that indulgences, simony, relic sales, worldly clerics, tithes, and landholding turned the church's spiritual authority into corruption and special privilege.
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"You're not asked to question it. You just have to memorize it. There are lots of rituals to the Catholic Church. Some of these..."
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"...the Catholic Church to enrich themselves. They set up something called indulgences. And the idea is, let's say you're a rich person, and you..."
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"And the kings are the ones who can appoint leaders of the church as well, okay? So there's this negotiation going on between the..."
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"...the building of this church, the Catholic Church saw something called indulgences. Indulgences are basically like tickets or special letters that will reduce the..."
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"And this is the argument he makes, okay? So, let's look at some sentences. So, the 36th sentence is, every truly repentant Christian has..."
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"So, let's pray for the Pope. Because clearly, the Pope has offended God. He also says, Why does not the Pope, whose wealth is..."
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"...practices at this time, okay? The first is the idea of indulgence. And this means that maybe you committed a lot of sins, but..."
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"So they want to buy relics in order to channel the divine power of Jesus, right? Well, the church would sell these relics, and..."
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"The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the..."
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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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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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