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and then the power of greece waned, so...
by yakisamin 4y ago
and then the power of greece waned, so...
- escapecharacter 4y agoCan you name anything that didn’t wane after several hundred years?
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoGood point, but challenge accepted: The Papacy.
- Retric 4y agoProtestant Reformation The Roman Catholic Church had quite significant swings in power over time.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoCertainly the Catholic Church has had significant swings, I take your point, but so far it has never waned into irrelevancy. I counter your Protestant Reformantion point with the Catholicization of Latin America.
- Retric 4y agoCompare the power the church had in Europe in say 1200 vs Latin America in 2022 and there is no contest it’s vastly weaker today. Total membership is up, total wealth is up, actual power isn’t.
- trgn 4y agoIt's always an eye opener to see the crowds of people worldwide when the pope visits.
- hirundo 4y agoThe propensity of things to wane.
- esotericimpl 4y ago
- HideousKojima 4y agoIn the case of Athens, it was only 61 years between Socrates being accused of "corrupting the youth" and Athens being conquered by the much more rural and conservative (small c) Macedonians.
- polygamous_bat 4y agoAnd correlation does not imply causation, so...