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You do realize that a great deal of the Vatican museum collection is art sponsored (patronized) by churchmen, right? From money generally voluntarily donated to
by cpr 12y ago
You do realize that a great deal of the Vatican museum collection is art sponsored (patronized) by churchmen, right? From money generally voluntarily donated to the Church?
So not quite so ill-gotten as you imagine?
- toyg 12y agoIt depends on your definition of "money generally voluntarily donated to the Church". Catholic history is full of shenanigans, from selling access to Paradise to taxing peasants for working the land to "tweaking" inheritance laws all the way to waging wars (since the Church was a real Nation State for hundreds of years, committing its fair share of nation-state-scale atrocities). The Sistine Chapel wasn't paid with Sunday hats, if you know what I mean.