On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: >I could totally be wrong, but wasn't The Church like, insanely >powerful "back in the day"?
Yes. Seriously, kings used to ask the Pope for permission to do stuff. >Even here, in America? Not so much, since few of the colonists were Catholics and it was the Catholic church that held that power. Remember that until the early 20th century many protestant doctrines held that the Papacy (not the Pope himself, just his office) was the anti-Christ. A few still do, but not many. >Like, why did TJ have to hide his bible? I don't know that one. I seem to recall hearing something about him hiding his Bible back in the dim days of childhood, but I don't remember why. >Do you think that there were people who just /said/ they were down >with the status quo? What's with the past tense there? :-P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320765 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
