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The Polish-Lithuanian refuge initially offers tolerance but becomes another site of Jewish insecurity through invasion and war.
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Tolerance
Jiang argues that governing Jerusalem forced the Templars to work with Jews and Muslims, learn from them, and become more tolerant, rational, and cosmopolitan than the church bureaucracy.
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Before crusading violence, Jiang presents Muslim-controlled Jerusalem after 638 as open and inclusive for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
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Jiang argues that governing Jerusalem forced the Templars to work with Jews and Muslims, learn from them, and become more tolerant, rational, and cosmopolitan than the church bureaucracy.
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Jiang argues that pre-modern pagan cultures could be more tolerant than modern nation-state narratives admit because they did not classify homosexuality, race, and minority status in the same rigid modern way.
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In Jiang's reconstruction, Muhammad's law promised equality, mercy, tolerance, openness, and divine justice.
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Ordinary ancient households are described as multi-religious, with people practicing the faiths of family, neighbors, spouses, and rulers as a way of getting along.
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"Okay? Okay, so what will happen now is a lot of Jews choose to settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth which is a new..."
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"So in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. But before that, the Germans expelled the Jews in 1100, France in 1306. But before then, you..."
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"The Catholic Church is an imperial bureaucracy. It only cares about maintaining orthodoxy over Europe. But the Knights Templars, they are bankers, they're traders...."
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"So what the Knights Templars are doing is they're absorbing all this diverse religious belief. And as such, they become essentially free thinkers, okay?..."
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"Okay. So the question then is how were these pre -modern cultures these pagan cultures tolerant? How did they perceive gays and minorities? Okay...."
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"communities suppress the individual is something that we believe we have faith in it but it just is not historically true. Okay? Also remember..."
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"...follow God's law. God's law demands equality. It demands mercy and tolerance. It demands openness. That is God's law. Okay? So that's Mohammed. So..."
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"Okay? So he is the Messiah. He's the promised one. God has ordered him to do this. Appeared to them as a preacher. Okay?..."
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"So let me explain what's happening. Okay? So remember, the Babylonians in 586, they take over Jerusalem. They burn a temple. They destroy the..."
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"Okay? Because this is how people got along. Right? If you said that my God is better than your God, you will piss off..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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