The last time the west was at a cultural crossroads of sorts, like the present, was around the
year 1500.
Whether it be a global Spreadsheet of today or the ledgers of the
Medicis that dominated international banking of the day, the difference between
things material and or spiritual remain the same I think.
Thesis 50 - Christians
are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the pardon-preachers,
he would rather that St. Peter’s
church should go to ashes, than
that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep. ~~
Martin Luther, 95 Theses
History has a way of being told sometimes without all the
details sometimes being disclosed.
