Posted: Oct 18, 2010 3:09 am
Interesting thread. I'm learning a lot.
The question that comes to my mind (and it is a serious question, because I am quite deeply ignorant on many aspects of this) is: If they were all running around taking things allegorically and the like, then what were the justifications for things like relics, killing people, the wielding of enormous temporal power, and such-like?
I know that's badly put and it is so because of my own ignorance. It's difficult to frame a question adequately in such a situation.
The question that comes to my mind (and it is a serious question, because I am quite deeply ignorant on many aspects of this) is: If they were all running around taking things allegorically and the like, then what were the justifications for things like relics, killing people, the wielding of enormous temporal power, and such-like?
I know that's badly put and it is so because of my own ignorance. It's difficult to frame a question adequately in such a situation.