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Can anyone help me interpret a sentence from a book I'm reading? The book is Allegros "the End of a Road", and it is talk about the massive wealth of the Catholic and Anglican church. Here is the sentence: «It's easy enough to draw stark contrast between this kind of wealth and the dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails, and the professed pauperism of the early Christians, but a massive organization like the church requires massive administrative facilities.» The part i don't get is «dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails» Someone please? Thanks
Don't worry about sentences like that. If the writer has something worthwhile to say, they will take the time to express their thoughts in a simple way.
They're saying if you have a lot of money to manage, you eventually end up doing stuff with it that everyone else with lots of money does; taking part in buying, selling and using money as the resource itself, I.e. not buying and selling other things with it. The Vatican's bank is probably a good example.
Can anyone help me interpret a sentence from a book I'm reading? The book is Allegros "the End of a Road", and it is talk about the massive wealth of the Catholic and Anglican church. Here is the sentence: «It's easy enough to draw stark contrast between this kind of wealth and the dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails, and the professed pauperism of the early Christians, but a massive organization like the church requires massive administrative facilities.» The part i don't get is «dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails» Someone please? Thanks
What I get when I read that, is the author saying that in order for the church to have that sort of wealth, that it probably gained it in manipulative ways- and in comparison with the early Christians, well, there's no comparison, lol.
The story is told that the great Italian Dominican friar Savanarola, who campaigned against clerical corruption and championed the poor, was once invited to tour one of the large churches in 15th century Rome. At the conclusion of the tour of the great, ornate facility, the parrish priest said to Savanarola, "You can see that we are no longer the church of old where Peter and John had to say, 'Silver and gold have we none.'"
"No," replied Savanarola, "but neither can you say, like them, 'Rise up and walk.'"
They're saying if you have a lot of money to manage, you eventually end up doing stuff with it that everyone else with lots of money does; taking part in buying, selling and using money as the resource itself, I.e. not buying and selling other things with it. The Vatican's bank is probably a good example.
While they were robbing the Vatican, you were out front watching for the cops.
Can anyone help me interpret a sentence from a book I'm reading? The book is Allegros "the End of a Road", and it is talk about the massive wealth of the Catholic and Anglican church. Here is the sentence: «It's easy enough to draw stark contrast between this kind of wealth and the dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails, and the professed pauperism of the early Christians, but a massive organization like the church requires massive administrative facilities.» The part i don't get is «dabbling in the money market that it's manipulation entails» Someone please? Thanks
To me, "the End of a Road " is the coming end when the political will surprisingly turn on the religious world.
Perhaps a bad economy could make the 'wealth' the churches have amassed look easy for the political taking.
The author is just trying to say that these churches have large amounts of wealth. Enough to invest over time, as opposed to just giving immediately to those in need.
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