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The Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy despite Jesus’s anti-rich teaching, because Western Europe’s growing population, trade, cities, climate, and technology enrich the institution.
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The Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy despite Jesus’s anti-rich teaching, because Western Europe’s growing population, trade, cities, climate, and technology enrich the institution.
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He claims Catholic institutional power in America is visible through Supreme Court composition, Vatican-CIA cooperation against communism, and a growing Catholic demographic base.
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"Then Jesus said to his disciples, Assuredly, I said to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of..."
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"...Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy, okay? If you go to the Vatican, you can still go to the Vatican, you can visit St. Peter's..."
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"...Okay. Also, the CIA was founded with the help of the Vatican. So William Donovan, who was the founder of the OSS, the precursor..."
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"Another sign is that the Catholic religion is growing very, very fast in America. Right now, it's about 22 % of the American population...."
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"...So Spain remains Catholic. and it's gonna fight to control the Vatican and this okay so that's what Spain does now Britain and the..."
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"...England in Catholicism you swear allegiance to the Pope of the Vatican and then you have the Americans who have a who believe that..."
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"...church called the Church of England and separate himself from the Vatican. Now, what's really important for us to remember is there's only one..."
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"...is too corrupt, it's too evil, it's too much like the Vatican. Therefore, we should abolish it or we should just separate from it...."
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"...that he will be too close to France, Spain, and the Vatican. And these are British enemies. Okay? So what will happen is this...."
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"...you're a Catholic king, you can draw on the French, the Vatican, the Spanish as allies in your suppression of the nobles and of..."
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"...they're hung up in churches or public places or in the Vatican okay does that doesn't make sense but that's the main idea of..."
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"...Church wanted to build St. Peter's Basilica, a church in the Vatican, and they wanted this to be a gorgeous building. So to finance..."
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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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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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