IN the church, the papacy gained much power. With this, they tried to exercise their supremacy over the other secular rulers, which they didn't like. This made them have to defend their positions, and have problems with the papacy, forever changing their relationship.
Based on what we have learned about the relationship between political power and religious power in previous chapters, would you say the clash between papacy and the Holy Roman Empire was inevitable?
The papacy did not have to exercise their power over the
empire, but became too greedy to hold back their actions, and that led to big
trouble with the Holy Roman Empire. I personally would have to say that the
answer does not lie in a defined relationship between political and religious
power, but instead lies more in human nature. For some reason, people who start
in some sort of powerful position, and are given more power tend to become
irrational, and personal about it. They only see what more they can gain, and
will use all of the people they have crushed to get to where they are in order
to get higher. This being said, the only thing they will do is reach their
peak, and send themselves over the cliff, tumbling to the bottom. However, one
who starts at the bottom, knows where they’ve come from, and are able to use that
instead of other people in order to raise themselves to positions where they
can help the general community without sinking tend to make people less mad,
and lead the world into a new age of much fruit. IF you have that, and a God
who has that planned for you, you can do some real damage to the culture you
live in, and use the broken pieces to create something truly remarkable.
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