"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors."
This is perhaps the most shocking admission by a pope in the long and bloody history of the Catholic church. That it was profitable to the Church is undeniable, for the Roman Catholic Church had gained enormous wealth and power, including political power, which it held throughout most of its history.
But the fact that a pope would actually refer to the religion as a "superstition" and to the story of Christ as a "fable" is surprising. To those of us who have taken the time to research the evidence, it's obvious that it is indeed a superstition and a fable, and that the Church started out trying to hide the true origins of Christianity. They engaged in outright lies, forged numerous documents, and then destroyed the evidence of the religion's real beginnings - including countless manuscripts and the entire library of Alexandria which housed the wisdom of the ancient world. The result was that Europe was soon plunged into the Dark Ages of ignorance, from which Western civilization still has not recovered.
But this statement from Pope Leo X causes one to wonder just how many of the popes and other leaders in the Catholic Church hierarchy knew that their whole religion was a sham? My guess is that there were two types: those leaders who realized it was built on falsehoods and were only interested in acquiring wealth and power for themselves and the Church, and those who were sincere but wrong and just so spiritually ignorant they couldn't see what a load of nonsense the whole thing was. Self-deception likely played a role also, to the point where they may have actually started to believe their own propaganda.
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[Slight differences in this quote from Leo X are due to the translation into English.]
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