RE: Why do cardinals get to elect the Pope?
March 13, 2019 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2019 at 2:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 13, 2019 at 1:59 pm)wyzas Wrote: They often wait decades for this thrill of mental masturbation. Who in their right mind would take that away?
IKR, think of what they'd be up to otherwise. Locking them all into a room and away from children for a few days is worth it.
Brian, all that the term was used to refer to was the difference between the leader of a country and the officials of the church. Yes, the church was very powerful, in it's own way (sometimes)..and it was precisely because of this that earthly despots who were not popes sought to leverage the institutions weight for their own aims. The church was parasitic, itself, sure..always has been...but it was also the case that a bunch of assholes were making a bad thing worse. As you've gone to lengths to point out, the secular authorities of the time weren't exactly operating on the notion of secularism we have in the present. Think of it like this, one group of assholes was concerned that another group of assholes had too much influence in their shared assholing market...and, I'm sure, some of them were very fine people.
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