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I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this discussion and the obvious scholarship involved. However, I keep wondering why would the Church in Rome not have corrected the error in recognizing who founded the church there. They would have known who was their founder, or did this begin so many years after the fact no one was left who could refute it?
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How many groups or lofty leaders, for that matter,

have deliberately undermined their death grip on awesome power?

. . . or for that matter . . . even the foundation of their pride?

AWESOME POLITICAL POWER has a LOT of attractions and bennies. They are hard to turn loose of or weaken.

[wmfights]

"AWESOME POLITICAL POWER has a LOT of attractions and bennies. They are hard to turn loose of or weaken."
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I agree and am not naive about the motivations of men, but I am also a skeptic by nature. I've found it comforting because the more you question the more TRUTH is revealed.