(April 23, 2011 at 1:14 am)Minimalist Wrote: I don't think they are "holy" or "good." I think they are scumbags. But they had to know that this kind of shit cannot be kept under wraps. The story always gets out. I would have thought they would be "smarter." After all, they have been pulling the same bullshit scam for 1500 years. You'd think they would have learned to cover their asses a little better.
I guess I am surprised that they turned out to be so "stupid."
I don't think that things can be covered up forever. Anyway, there have been even 3 catholic popes at once, as I remember (political problems), and they weren't very nice one to another. I guess the real issues were only hidden from the laymen (while kings and lords and priests all knew how things were going). Too bad that in the medieval age, if a country attempted to separate itself from the authority of the Catholic Pope, his country would have been declared 'free to be conquered', and the pope would have promised eternal life for the one that brought the head of the rebellious king. Europe has escaped hardly from the claws of the Pope.