From: "Bob W"
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Amazing shot. Just think of all the events that happened at that
church: weddings, baptisms, funerals. It must feel quite special at
that spot.
I don't think any of those things would have happened - it was an
abbey, full of monks. It would have been licentiousness, greed,
usury, fornication, gluttony and probably idolatry, otherwise Henry
VIII would not have dissolved it, surely.
The monasteries and abbeys were a kind of corporate, multinational
organisation owing their allegiance to Rome, populated by powerful
and ambitious men at the top. They controlled enormous agricultural
holdings and acted as a giant wealth magnetic, sucking money out of
the poor, whom they exploited ruthlessly by lying to them about their
souls, preventing them from getting an education and bamboozling them
into believing that their position at the bottom of society was
ordained by god and therefore unchangeable. Nuns were little more
than the monks' sexual playthings, and other woman were beneath
acknowledgement as human beings.
B
I thought Henery VIII went after the monasteries because the Pope
wouldn't let him divorce whats-her-name? Looting them of their ill
gotten gains undermined the Pope's power base in England.
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