Oh. Didn't read the title.
Problem with abbies is the were too successful. All that organization and slavish devotion made for prosperous islands in a time of want. Learned, prosperous islands, when it comes to that. Figures they would eventually attract the less-than-pious. I don't think the vow of poverty went all the way up to the Abbot... ;-) cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Bob W <p...@web-options.com> Sent: October 17, 2012 10/17/12 To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: RE: PESO - Fountains Abbey Chancel > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > knarftheria...@gmail.com > > Amazing shot. Just think of all the events that happened at that > church: weddings, baptisms, funerals. It must feel quite special at > that spot. > I don't think any of those things would have happened - it was an abbey, full of monks. It would have been licentiousness, greed, usury, fornication, gluttony and probably idolatry, otherwise Henry VIII would not have dissolved it, surely. The monasteries and abbeys were a kind of corporate, multinational organisation owing their allegiance to Rome, populated by powerful and ambitious men at the top. They controlled enormous agricultural holdings and acted as a giant wealth magnetic, sucking money out of the poor, whom they exploited ruthlessly by lying to them about their souls, preventing them from getting an education and bamboozling them into believing that their position at the bottom of society was ordained by god and therefore unchangeable. Nuns were little more than the monks' sexual playthings, and other woman were beneath acknowledgement as human beings. B > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> > Sent: October 16, 2012 10/16/12 > To: Pentax List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: PESO - Fountains Abbey Chancel > > The view down the nave from (what once was) the chancel: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16519776&size=lg > > Comments always appreciated. > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
