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sales pitch
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Jiang says the system does not care whether slaves discover after death that the promise failed because extraction happens while they live.
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Paul's real customers are patriarchs who fund and force conversion, not the ordinary slaves who receive the doctrine.
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The Ray Kroc analogy frames Paul as a franchiser who turns Jesus into an empire by selling investment in a standardized religious brand.
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To Romans, Paul's pitch is that Christianity divides Jews, pacifies their Messiah of war, and spiritually enslaves workers.
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To Jewish leaders, the pitch is that Christianity universalizes Torah, elevates Jerusalem, and lets Jews work with Roman patriarchs.
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Augustine's City of God is presented as the move that places the Catholic Church above the temporal Roman city.
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"Okay, so this is why you must obey Him completely, because now you are guaranteed access to heaven, eternal paradise, okay? Pretty good deal,..."
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"But now, Paul is going to make a sales pitch to the Greeks and the Jews, okay? And this is what he says. A..."
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"And so while the Jews are printing, waiting for a Messiah of war, Paul says, no, no, Jesus was a Messiah of peace, okay?..."
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"Okay, so this is really important. Jesus said there's a divine spark in us, right? In other sense, yes, there's a divine spark, but..."
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"will above God's commandment, and to suppose that his was of venial transgression when he refused to desert his life's companion, even though the..."
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"And they'll work harder for us. So that's a sales pitch of Paul to the Romans. But there's also a sales pitch he can..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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