{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The thing about Catholicism, if it didn't have real God-power, then all that it did was done by the thing it was, and the thing...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/163594179753/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>kontextmaschine</strong> asked: The thing about Catholicism, if it didn't have real God-power, then all that it did was done by the thing it was, and the thing that it was was sufficient enough to do all that it did</div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/163593933279/the-thing-about-catholicism-if-it-didnt-have\">argumate</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>yep, track changes in morality, remain a mere 200 years behind the times, and leverage the remains of the Roman empire to keep a hold on Europe for far longer than you might expect before ultimately falling.</p></blockquote><p><p>was a parallel polity to a good chunk of the world through literate education so good that trained randoms could be inserted into any random village and trusted to subvert or syncretize it</p><p>has seen worse before</p></p>"}