For Jiang, a fatalistic and merciful Christianity where humans are born to sin and only God can redeem the mysterious heart.
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Orthodox Christianity
For Jiang, a fatalistic and merciful Christianity where humans are born to sin and only God can redeem the mysterious heart.
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Jiang speculates that Spyridon Putin was humble, selfless, Orthodox Christian, and admiring of Stalin, helping transmit a Stalin-as-messiah story to Vladimir Putin.
Byzantine diplomacy worked through intermarriage, bribery, and religious conversion, offering Viking rulers legitimacy, imperial marriage, and military alliance in exchange for service and Orthodox Christianity.
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"And if you're powerful, then you can start to do favors for the people. You can promote their careers. You can also save their..."
"He had no ambitions. And he was selfless. He was dedicated to his leaders, preparing good meals for his leaders. And that suggests to..."
"For thou hast loved much. He will forgive my Sonia. He will forgive. I know it. I felt it in my heart when I..."
"Okay. And again. These are different branches of Christianity. And they seem similar. But in reality. They are extremely different. Okay. So the Protestants...."
"Because only God. Can save. And redeem us. Even though. We are beyond. Salvation. And redemption. Okay. The third major difference is. The Protestants...."
"...that you now serve the empire and that you convert to Christianity Orthodox Christianity. Right? And as you can see this makes sense for..."
"...they'll fight the Byzantines, because the Byzantines want to enforce an Orthodox Christianity onto them. Okay? And this is what Europe looks like when..."
"...they were all atheist Marxist intellectuals who believed that it was Orthodox Christianity that kept Russia feudal primitive backward Stalin is different because Stalin..."
"...the world is, all these religious differences are idiotic. Zoroastrianism, Catholic Christianity, Nestorian Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism. It does not, these factions are against..."
"...God is. And this is very important for us to understand Orthodox Christianity. He says to Raskolnikov. Why am I to be pitied you..."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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