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To: muir_redwoods

hahahah!

You need to spend more time at either (A) a public university, or (B) the FR religion forum. Seriously, I bet MOST Americans believe MOST medieval/Renaissance popes did far worse than what even the Borgias actually did do.

Read the ridiculous slander of Foxe’s Book of the Martyrs, and then understand that this book was required reading in U.S. public schools in the 19th century, and was usually one of two books a typical American owned.


30 posted on 04/01/2011 5:36:43 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
Logically, if the Borgias were really thought of as typical of popes, they wouldn't be notorious; they would be common.

Hyperbole is fine in friendly (or not so friendly perhaps) discussions but logic dictates that most popes are a good deal more highly regarded than the Borgias.

31 posted on 04/01/2011 5:53:29 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: dangus
Popes will be Popes!

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37 posted on 04/02/2011 7:31:27 AM PDT by Gamecock (I didn't reach the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian.)
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