To: wagglebee
Try to stay focused, this thread is about the misguided notion that the Catholic Church wants to bring back the Holy Roman Empire. Which is an incredibly absurd premise for anyone who knows anything about history because the TRUTH is that the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire had an incredibly antagonistic relationship with each other for centuries.***********************
Exactly correct, particularly if we consider the fate some early Catholics met at the coliseum.
2,269 posted on
09/08/2010 9:25:14 AM PDT by
trisham
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To: trisham
The Holy Roman Empire had nothing to do with the Roman Empire.
Charlemagne was a Frankish (French) king who was crowned emperor by the pope because the pope wanted to have some control over him. For the next thousand years the relationship between the various popes and emperors (they were actually the Austrian and Spanish royal family) ranged from luke-warm to downright hostile.
2,278 posted on
09/08/2010 9:32:18 AM PDT by
wagglebee
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To: trisham
Nonsense.
The thread moved on from the absurd beginning a long time ago.
2,279 posted on
09/08/2010 9:32:34 AM PDT by
Quix
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