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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Is not the entirety of the Catholic church through history an exercise in political entity????
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Well, I get in trouble for this all the time here because I talk about book-learning, but, there is a great author and thinker, Pierre Manent, who basically says something like "no, they tried at times, but were more like a mediator between the different warring factions of the Middle Ages, and Early Modern Period."
http://www.amazon.ca/City-Man-Pierre...=pierre+manent
http://www.amazon.ca/Seeing-Things-P...=pierre+manent