How people used to be, before money, before so many many things. Reading The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot. She is so very very sarcastic, I have to read every paragraph twice, it is taking me forever. But it is helping me understand something about the ways we were, though much after the inventions, intentions, of that Pious person you mentioned.
Like everything else, there are not-so-good popes and better popes. It is useful to have the views of those who are far removed from ordinary reality. That doesn't mean you have to follow their thinking. The pope has no legions as Stalin famously noted.
If only it was all about money and greed. That at least would be rational.
How people used to be, before money, before so many many things. Reading The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot. She is so very very sarcastic, I have to read every paragraph twice, it is taking me forever. But it is helping me understand something about the ways we were, though much after the inventions, intentions, of that Pious person you mentioned.
All popes are assholes. Do we agree. Your writing has the clarity of fog.
Like everything else, there are not-so-good popes and better popes. It is useful to have the views of those who are far removed from ordinary reality. That doesn't mean you have to follow their thinking. The pope has no legions as Stalin famously noted.