Protestantism and then the Enlightenment increase the abstraction and extraction power of transnational capital, culminating in money replacing God.
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Protestant Reformation
Protestantism and then the Enlightenment increase the abstraction and extraction power of transnational capital, culminating in money replacing God.
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Jiang says the Christian Zionist project has existed since the Protestant Reformation and has been patiently planning for centuries.
The Protestant Reformation creates a crisis of individual faith by removing the Catholic Church as mediator and forcing the individual to prove absolute faith directly before God.
Both Protestant and Catholic institutions promoted science because each wanted to understand the mind of God and strengthen its authority against rivals.
The Eucharist is presented as a ritual where priests channel Jesus into bread and wine, a practice Jiang says later Protestants will reject as superstitious.
Persecuting and disbanding the Templars is said to drive their beliefs underground, incubating the Protestant Reformation and influencing the American Revolution.
Wycliffe and Hus are framed as reformers who challenge priestly monopoly and anticipate Luther's Protestant Reformation.
The lecture closes by saying the Crusades material is needed for future classes, especially the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation.
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"So what I will do is explain to you what the Protestant Reformation is. The Protestant Reformation radically changes how we see ourselves and..."
"...centuries. This Christian Zionist project has been around ever since the Protestant Reformation. And these people have been patiently planning and waiting for today...."
"...religion. All right so as we discussed last class with the Protestant Reformation there is now a crisis of faith because Christianity creates the..."
"The Protestant Reformation removes the Catholic Church from the equation. Now you are in direct communion with God and you must show absolute faith..."
"...drive the Second Revolution. The first is the idea of the Protestant Reformation and the Counter -Reformation. So the Protestants have come. They're challenging..."
"So the Protestants are heavily devoted to science because they want to... Okay? They want to understand the will and mind of God. The..."
"And so the Eucharist employs the principle of transmutation. So during the Eucharist, and it's basically called a meal, what the priest will do..."
"...will start to spread throughout Europe, and it will incubate the Protestant Reformation, and it will actually even influence the American Revolution, okay?"
"We'll discuss this later when we get to the American Revolution. The reason for Jack de Molay being burned is the Catholic Church accuses..."
"So you have something called the Docinians. And what they argue for, this is basically a revolutionary party. They argue for the fall of..."
"...of Martin Luther, okay? Martin Luther will start something called the Protestant Reformation,"
"...for Europe, all right? So we'll discuss Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation next week. Okay, so let us conclude by answering the three..."
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