"Fetch me the soft cushions!"
Good luck, dear Knights.
"Fetch me the soft cushions!"
The Vatican should do exactly as the Knights Templar ask and should condemn Philip IV of France.
The treasure is on Oak Island. For a small advance fee, I will send the co-ordinates.
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It’s about time they showed some juevos on this!
Ping?
As Spongebob Squarepants would say, “Well, good luck with that!”
No one shall pass without my permission!
They'll have to prove legal succession to have legal standing.
And they can't prove that. Too many claimants. It's like the Dook and the Dolphin in Huckleberry Finn.
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The vatican is a good deal like Bill Clinton. They’ll give apologies all over the place which will mean absolutely nothing.
CHAPTER XLVII
OF THE BENEFIT THAT PROCEEDETH FROM SUCH DARKNESS, AND TO WHOM IT ACCRUETH
After that certain Churches had renounced this universal power of the Pope, one would expect, in reason, that the civil sovereigns in all those Churches should have recovered so much of it as (before they had unadvisedly let it go) was their own right and in their own hands. And in England it was so in effect; saving that they by whom the kings administered the government of religion, by maintaining their employment to be in God's right, seemed to usurp, if not a supremacy, yet an independency on the civil power: and they but seemed to usurp it, inasmuch as they acknowledged a right in the king to deprive them of the exercise of their functions at his pleasure.
But in those places where the presbytery took that office, though many other doctrines of the Church of Rome were forbidden to be taught; yet this doctrine, that the kingdom of Christ is already come, and that it began at the resurrection of our Saviour, was still retained. But cui bono? What profit did they expect from it? The same which the popes expected: to have a sovereign power over the people. For what is it for men to excommunicate their lawful king, but to keep him from all places of God's public service in his own kingdom; and with force to resist him when he with force endeavoureth to correct them? Or what is it, without authority from the civil sovereign, to excommunicate any person, but to take from him his lawful liberty, that is, to usurp an unlawful power over their brethren? The authors therefore of this darkness in religion are the Roman and the Presbyterian clergy.
Thomas Hobbes http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-k.html#CHAPTERXLVII
Hey, I think I’m going to sue the Vatican as well for something they did to my ancestors in the Middle Ages. I don’t know of anything in particular; but I’m sure something or other happened back then.
Saving for later e-mailing to some friends.
Better yet, reassemble your forces and regain your lost wealth by plundering the lands of the Unbelievers. Start with Saudi Arabia ...
Being a Cuban, I am going to sue: (1) The Lebanese Government, for the invasion of my ancestral home by the Pheonecians and thier spawn, the Carhaginians; (2) Greece for the invasion of my ancestral home by the Ancient Greeks; (3) Italy and the City of Rome for the conquest of Spain by Rome; (4) Germany, lets not forget those damn Visigoths!; (5) [Can’t sue Islam, its a Religion of Peace, we were the Crusading occupiers (repeat 20,000 times] (6) France, for the War of Spanish Succession and that horrible Napoleonic occupation; (7) England, how dare they invade Napoleonic Spain! and (8) The United States, for the Spanish American War.
Where do I sign up?
On the other hand they were just stealing from others who had stolen so there is no justice to be had by giving them anything.
However, if this proceeds through the Courts, then I want the Maltese Falcon exempted from the proceedings and declared a world treasure which cannot be possessed by anyone.