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Buying and selling church offices, compared by Jiang to corruption in China’s imperial bureaucracy.
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simony
Buying and selling church offices, compared by Jiang to corruption in China’s imperial bureaucracy.
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Buying one's way into church office regardless of education or theological understanding.
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Church power produces corruption through indulgences, simony, relic sales, noble control, tax exemptions, and control of land, setting kings against the Church.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that indulgences, simony, relic sales, worldly clerics, tithes, and landholding turned the church's spiritual authority into corruption and special privilege.
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"...see, there's a lot of corruption going on. There's something called simony, where you can buy and sell positions in the Catholic Church, very..."
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"You're not asked to question it. You just have to memorize it. There are lots of rituals to the Catholic Church. Some of these..."
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"And the kings are the ones who can appoint leaders of the church as well, okay? So there's this negotiation going on between the..."
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"...would have issues with this, okay? Second is the idea of simony. Simony just means that if you're rich, you can buy yourself into..."
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"So they want to buy relics in order to channel the divine power of Jesus, right? Well, the church would sell these relics, and..."
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"The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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