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To: Old Yeller

yeah, it’s true...there was no-one else for about 1,600 years until the revolution...then there were thousands of wannabees, none of which ever made much sense.


37 posted on 05/18/2015 7:39:04 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: terycarl
yeah, it’s true...there was no-one else for about 1,600 years until the revolution...then there were thousands of wannabees, none of which ever made much sense.

Ok; NOW it's time!!



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

143 posted on 05/19/2015 11:53:40 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
...there was no-one else for about 1,600 years until the revolution...

I recall that over two centuries ago another 'revolution' took place.

It was claimed that the rulers were corrupt and did not listen to those they controlled.

Those 'revolutionaries' had a list of complaints.

They; too; nailed them symbolically to the door...


http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

144 posted on 05/19/2015 11:57:11 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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