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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

That’s the problem with present-day China. The CCP demands to be the only
source of authority, and can’t tolerate competition from religion.

 I’m convinced that it was the conflicts between the popes and the temporal
rulers led directly to democracy in the West. Other civilizations
subordinated religion to the temporal rulers. Byzantine patriarchs answered
to the emperors. Moslem imams answered to the cailifs, etc. so there was no
one to object to what  the rulers wanted.




-- 
Pete