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Jiang calls the passage subversive because it implies you do not need a priestly intermediary in the strong sense people might expect; the decisive things named are the Bible and the church's broad guidance, not a monopolizing clerical gatekeeper.
Jiang compresses Dante's practical path to salvation into a synthesis of church attendance, listening to the priest, reading the Bible, and then exercising one's own judgment, intuition, and faith rather than outsourcing discernment entirely.
Ezra is presented as an exiled-family priest and intellectual who is considered the creator of the Bible in its current form.
Stalin defeated priest-like Bolshevik intellectuals because he operated as a spy: multiple personalities, emotional intelligence, trust manipulation, and power-seeking rather than truth-seeking.
"Okay, um, what is she saying here, okay? What is she saying here? What... Is she saying, okay, yes, it's important to keep your..."
"You don't need the priest, but what do you need?"
"...break. Use your intuition. How? Read the Bible. Listen to the priest. Okay? Once you have these two elements, go to church, listen to..."
"Gave to the priest Ezra, the scribe. A scholar of the text of the commandments of the Lord and his status for Israel."
"...from a family that was exiled to Babylon. But he's a priest, and he's an intellectual. So he is considered actually the creator of..."
"...so very simple formulation. Lenin, Trotsky, or Stalin. They were all priests, okay? But Stalin was a spy. And so let's look at the..."
"...able to make you trust him, all right? The last is priests are concerned with the pursuit of truth in God. Spies only want..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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