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You'd probably need to look on a bigger scale: when does the whole attitude to sexuality go so completely mad?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 09:39:53 AM EST
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The incentive to take the accumulated wealth of monasteries, on the one side, the incentive to proclaim that monasteries were sacred, holy places where no hanky-panky occured, on the other, and the need to raise a new generation of footsoldiers to fight for the one true faith, on both sides, could be a factor.

Hard to use Jews as a scapegoat to tar the reputation of a monastery ... very few of the monasteries had very many Jews.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:38:22 AM EST
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