On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:40:52PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > On 6/16/2014 2:02 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >E.g.: stone the women piously, chop off hands piously, etc. > >Major branches, like Shia and Sunni? the jihadists? > >The problem is they have no "pope" with authority since 500AD. > > The best thing about the pope is that he has no battalions. >
Interestingly, during the reunification of Italy in 1870, the Papacy did put up a token military resistance to defending Rome against the advancing Italian army, even though overwhelmingly outnumbered. The Pope did not voluntarily relinquish his real world territory. This lead to nearly 50 years of bickering between the Pope and Italy that was eventually resolved by Mussolini in the creation of the Vatican. In practice, the real political and military power of the Pope was broken by Napoleon some 70 years earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
