This explains why you still find such controlling behaviour in the Roman 'client-patron' catholic church. It is disavowed by the Vatican in public but has roots that go back 20 centuries. The 'good old days'. Not easy for the church to separate itself from this legacy.
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Mature student of literature, politics, philosophy. I’ve edited and published some ‘bitesize’ Nietzsche on medium and am now studying Shelley.
