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A state where the Bible/God's law becomes governing law.
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theocracy
A state where the Bible/God's law becomes governing law.
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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem represent two centers of gravity in Israel: Tel Aviv is democratic, secular, progressive, and Western, while Jerusalem is religious, conservative, and theocratic.
diagnosis
Jiang says some people in Jerusalem can accept or welcome Tel Aviv's destruction because they see Tel Aviv as the great Satan and want a theocratic Israel.
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Jiang predicts the world will become more theocratic because the Middle East war pits the global secular financial order against nationalist theocracy.
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He predicts that over the next five to ten years Iran will become more theocratic and nationalistic, Israel will abandon democracy for theocracy, and America will also abandon democracy for theocracy.
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He says capitalism's real enemies are monarchy, theocracy, nationalism, and democracy rather than communism.
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He presents religion as anti-capitalist because it teaches that money is morally suspect and redirects attention toward redemption, salvation, family, and kindness.
prediction
Jiang predicts Israel will become more theocratic over time because maintaining control of Israel requires obedience to God's law in this biblical logic.
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Jiang says America was founded by pilgrims seeking to build a kingdom of heaven on earth, while Puritans stayed in England and fought the Civil War.
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"...different visions for Israel. Tel Aviv is democratic. Jerusalem is a theocracy, meaning it's religious. Okay? Tel Aviv is open. Meaning, it actually has..."
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"...Satan. Let's just destroy it so that we can build a theocracy. Okay. All right. So let's look closely at where they disagree. Okay?..."
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"That's, again, I don't have evidence, but I think, according to game theory, that's the best explanation for how these leaders are getting killed...."
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"...we live in today. Okay? And they're fighting against a nationalist theocracy, theocratic. So this is what we can expect for the next five..."
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"That was also a very violent process. But in China, communism transitioned into capitalism pretty easily, pretty quickly, and extremely successfully, okay? And in..."
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"So theocracy is also a major enemy of capitalism. Then you also have nationalism. Okay? So nationalism is the idea of loyalty to your..."
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"...often redistribute property. Another great enemy of capitalism is religion, or theocracy. Okay? And the idea here is that all religions teach the same..."
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"...obey the laws of God, which means that they become a theocracy, okay? Now, I'm not saying you've been to Israel. I've been to..."
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"Okay? Now you can make the transition from Middle English to Modern English, the language we speak today. 1620 is significant because it's the..."
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"And, as a compromise, the pilgrims were allowed to go to America to build a new civilization based on their beliefs. And this civilization,..."
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"Okay, that's a great question, okay? Okay, so these are social scientists. And the thing about social scientists is they feel their responsibility is..."
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"...to the return of the Catholic Church, which was basically a theocracy. Does that make sense? That's the second possibility. And then another possibility..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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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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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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