The papacy is nothing but the ghost of the dead Roman Empire, sitting crowned on its grave

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• The papacy made Italy uniquely unstable in Europe, because each new pope inherited a precedent that he could overthrow any government he liked. APAda Palmer16 Jun 2026
• The Inquisition's image as one centralised power is its own propaganda: it was scattered isolated men who could act only as far as a local government would fund them. APAda Palmer16 Jun 2026
• Historical Christianity dwells with harmful exaggeration on the person of Jesus; the soul knows no persons RERalph Waldo Emerson15 Jul 1838
• The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a real loss of state capacity, not merely a change of management, and the evidence for that loss is ample. BDBret Devereaux28 Jan 2022
• An institution can outlive the state that built it: the Church survived the collapse of Roman political authority when Rome’s other institutions did not. BDBret Devereaux28 Jan 2022

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