[metmom]

for 1,600 or so years, Catholicism had no competition....

That'll happen when they use the power of the sward to eradicate the competition.

[terycarl]

for 1,600 or so years, Catholicism had no competition.... That'll happen when they use the power of the sward to eradicate the competition.

They didn't have to do that until the pesky revolutionaries sprang up....around 1600.

They did have to take out their swords once before that...when the pesky Muslims were kept, by the Catholic church, from overrunning all of Europe.(Charles Martel, Battle of Tours and others)