The Vatican Empire: A Divine Enterprise from Year One
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THE VATICAN EMPIRE: A Divine Enterprise from Year One
Who said holiness couldn't be profitable?
Get ready for an unflinching journey into the heart of the smallest-and most power-dense-state on Earth: the Vatican. This isn't a hagiography. It's a scalpel-sharp dissection of the oldest spiritual corporation still in operation, unmasking it not with incense and blessings, but with historical evidence, biting wit, and unapologetic sarcasm.
You won't find miracles here-only financial records, doctrinal marketing, papal power struggles, and an institution that learned early on how to monetize sin, package salvation, and franchise faith across centuries and continents.
Was Jesus a divine revelation or a Minimum Viable Product in a startup called Nazareth Inc.? Were the Gospels holy testimony or narrative propaganda? Is the Bible a divine message or an editorial project by fourth-century theologians with political agendas?
THE VATICAN EMPIRE is NOT a book for blind believers. It's for curious minds, skeptics with style, and critical readers who prefer footnotes to miracles. With precision and dark humor, this book explores the strategic decisions, financial empires, forged documents, holy wars, and liturgical rebranding that built the Church as we know it.
THE VATICAN EMPIRE does NOT seek to destroy the faith, but to show its gears: how it was built, who adjusted them, and why it was so carefully armored. With a scathing but rigorous style, it reveals the best-kept secrets of an institution that has survived empires, wars, schisms, heresies, dictators, financial scandals and yet... continues to bless millions.
This isn't a desecration-it's an forensic autopsy. With gloves on and sources cited.
If you've ever wondered how the "Kingdom of God on Earth" came to have embassies, its own bank, sovereign immunity, and a global PR department, this book is your backstage pass.
Warning: includes uncomfortable truths, historical irony, and spiritual side effects. Not suitable for the humorless or the devoutly naive. About the author
No T llez Reyes is an engineer, teacher and critical analyst with more than three decades dismantling discourses, processes and dogmas... with the same precision with which others assemble Swiss watches. Master in Management Systems and author of several technical and satirical works, he combines academic rigor with a sharp irony to undress power structures disguised as spirituality. This is not his first uncomfortable book, nor will it be his last - thank God. He firmly believes that critical thinking is an act of faith in intelligence... and a heresy against conformism.
Who said holiness couldn't be profitable?
Get ready for an unflinching journey into the heart of the smallest-and most power-dense-state on Earth: the Vatican. This isn't a hagiography. It's a scalpel-sharp dissection of the oldest spiritual corporation still in operation, unmasking it not with incense and blessings, but with historical evidence, biting wit, and unapologetic sarcasm.
You won't find miracles here-only financial records, doctrinal marketing, papal power struggles, and an institution that learned early on how to monetize sin, package salvation, and franchise faith across centuries and continents.
Was Jesus a divine revelation or a Minimum Viable Product in a startup called Nazareth Inc.? Were the Gospels holy testimony or narrative propaganda? Is the Bible a divine message or an editorial project by fourth-century theologians with political agendas?
THE VATICAN EMPIRE is NOT a book for blind believers. It's for curious minds, skeptics with style, and critical readers who prefer footnotes to miracles. With precision and dark humor, this book explores the strategic decisions, financial empires, forged documents, holy wars, and liturgical rebranding that built the Church as we know it.
THE VATICAN EMPIRE does NOT seek to destroy the faith, but to show its gears: how it was built, who adjusted them, and why it was so carefully armored. With a scathing but rigorous style, it reveals the best-kept secrets of an institution that has survived empires, wars, schisms, heresies, dictators, financial scandals and yet... continues to bless millions.
This isn't a desecration-it's an forensic autopsy. With gloves on and sources cited.
If you've ever wondered how the "Kingdom of God on Earth" came to have embassies, its own bank, sovereign immunity, and a global PR department, this book is your backstage pass.
Warning: includes uncomfortable truths, historical irony, and spiritual side effects. Not suitable for the humorless or the devoutly naive. About the author
No T llez Reyes is an engineer, teacher and critical analyst with more than three decades dismantling discourses, processes and dogmas... with the same precision with which others assemble Swiss watches. Master in Management Systems and author of several technical and satirical works, he combines academic rigor with a sharp irony to undress power structures disguised as spirituality. This is not his first uncomfortable book, nor will it be his last - thank God. He firmly believes that critical thinking is an act of faith in intelligence... and a heresy against conformism.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0F6NMW2ZT
ISBN13:9798281171663
Release Date:April 2025
Publisher:Independently Published
Length:258 Pages
Weight:1.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
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