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Jiang marks this idea as historically revolutionary because medieval believers broadly accepted the pope as God's representative with power over heaven.
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Pope
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...right because at this time in history everyone did believe the pope was the representative of god on earth and catholics still do today..."
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Jiang identifies the Pope as the one who has usurped Peter's place on earth.
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A student notes that condemning the Pope is not new in the Divine Comedy because Inferno already sends a Pope to hell, but Jiang answers that the present setting in heaven makes the attack much more paradoxical.
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Jiang says the real paradox is not Peter's anger by itself but the fact that someone in heaven, standing in the presence of an all-loving and forgiving God, is cursing God's earthly representative.
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Jiang says Peter's speech is clearly identifying the Pope as the Antichrist, not merely as a flawed church leader or ordinary heretic.
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A student emphasizes that Francis remained loyal to papal authority and did not openly oppose the crusades, which complicates any pure peacemaker image.
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Jiang identifies the plotter in the poem as the pope and says the pope's corruption consists in buying and selling salvation while arranging Dante's exile and his faction's permanent exclusion from Florence.
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Charlemagne’s coronation makes public legitimacy depend on papal anointing: the Holy Roman Emperor is treated as chosen by God through the Church.
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"...right because at this time in history everyone did believe the pope was the representative of god on earth and catholics still do today..."
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"Nope. The Pope, right? Okay. He's made my burial ground a sewer of blood, a sewer of stench, so that the perverse one who..."
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"...of a surprise because like in Inferno, he already condemned the Pope to hell when he dies, so..."
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"That's Inferno. This is heaven. What should you be doing in heaven?"
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"Okay. I understand why he's angry. But the paradox is, wait a minute here. You're in heaven. You recite God. God is all loving...."
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"Yes? So I think it starts in John and then in Ezekiel. And then it goes to the Book of Revelations where they're talking..."
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"...exactly. This is clearly, clearly what Peter's saying is that the Pope is the Antichrist. This is blatant, okay? There's no misinterpreting this, okay?..."
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"and the pope is really interesting on one hand francis was a devout catholic and he will never contradict the pope in fact he..."
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"Okay, so the man who will plan and plot is the pope, okay? So the pope is going to plot your exile and the..."
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"...of the Franks, he is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, okay? And from now on, it is the Catholic Church, the Pope,..."
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"...this explains why Charlemagne would want to be crowned by the pope. Because the pope did have legitimacy. He did have authority. Because the..."
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"...in a terrace of greed or avarice, and they're talking to Pope Adrian, who said that as Pope he was extremely ambitious, he did..."
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