• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    IDK the art the pappal state produced was pretty rad. Also Rome was full of enough prostitutes at times under its reign that it gave Martin Luther a conniption fit and more or less resulted in his thesis, that’s a lot of whores.

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      I’m not sure you can measure the prosperity of a society by their number of sex workers.

      The papal states sponsored art from classical artists, but they also censored the artists and disfigured their statues. If the state had invested in the arts secularly I believe it would only have improved outcomes.