gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) (06/09/90)
Dennis Kriz writes:
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The Catholic Church's history is *long* ... It passed through a period
where just about every other POSITION OF POWER was deemed hereditary.
(Kings, lords and what-not). I think that it was a good thing that
the Bishops were not allowed to become both "pope and ceasar"
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My question is why being a bishop or pope or whatever should ever have
BECOME a position of power.
When I read this thread of discussion I can't help being reminded of
Dostoyevsky's chapter in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, called ``The Grand
Inquisitor.'' For those who don't know it, the plot is that Christ
reappears during the Spanish inquisition, and the Grand Inquisitor
arrests him as a heretic. Much of the rest of it involves the Grand
Inquisitor pointing out the mistake Christ made in refusing the three
temptations, and how the Church had rectified that mistake. It is a
wonderful passage and I think everyone ought to read it.
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