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Jiang says Frank portrays Moses, David, Solomon, and prior religious pillars as slaves who could not see or conquer the true structure of the world.
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Religious Authority
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Grandness means a vast cosmology; completeness means everything visible must be explained; unity means a beginning and an end that hold the whole system together.
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"Keep on reading, Alan. That place to where I go all have knocked so that the door be opened to them. The patriarchs, the..."
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"Yeah, so he's saying the Jewish religion, you worship Moses and David and Solomon, but you know what? At the same time, they were..."
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"So, this is a visualization of their understanding of creation. As you can understand, it's very complicated, okay? Does that make sense? Why is..."
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"So, what this is doing is explaining to you how everything started, okay? Where everything comes from. So, completeness is important. The last thing..."
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"...um and so it's a dual system where um there's a religious authority run by the atatola and under him is a private militia..."
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"...decentralized uh regime where local where local molars have control have religious authority so even if you control 90 of the country you still..."
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"...on the road and much said that he was a high religious authority."
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"...the good news, and they interacted, or they challenged the traditional religious authority, the pagans of that area, and so they were killed. They..."
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"...Marduk to Sin because the king wants to establish his own religious authority. So this creates tremendous conflict eternally in Babylon. And normally, they..."
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