> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > Sent: 18 October 2012 17:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: PESO - Fountains Abbey Chancel > > From: "Bob W" > > >> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > >> [email protected] > >> > >> 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. >
That's correct. Also a useful source of ready cash. "otherwise Henry VIII would not have dissolved it, surely " was sarcasm. The monks etc. were still a sink of corruption and vice though, and in the long run it was a good thing to break up their power. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
