Posted on 02/03/2005 10:31:44 AM PST by 68skylark
I'd guess they're for medieval-like fiefdoms of petty bureaucracies. The dumber and poorer they can keep the serfs, the easier it is to rule them.
They then fill the intelligentia's brains with baseless assertions and emotion-driven dogma, in order to keep them in line (with political pressure on them to stay in "thought-line" if they want to keep their sinecures).
The R.C.C. knew for centuries that the easiest manner in which to keep a population controlled is to keep them poor and uneducated.
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