The worst pope in the history: Boniface VIII

Boniface VIII
(C.1230-1303)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Pope Boniface VIII (born Benedetto Caetani) c.1230-1303. was the worst pope in the world. He was cynical, despotic and believed magic and some other things. So he was superstitious. The picture of him was painted as the egg-shaped helmet on his head. This pope was the very bad thing for the church. But the question is why this particular pope was mentioned as the worst thing for the church but was he worse than some Borgia? Why was this pope so denigrated and hated? Did he make something, what made the leaders of the church to force the people to deny the relationship about this man?  Also, other popes were lived in sinful life, and they didn’t denigrate by the church?


Did this cynical man found something in the Vatican, what caused the force to deny his personality? By the way, I must ask one question, was the crime of that pope, that he was not some fanatic or otherwise the people, who seemed like “real believer? And what made him untouchable during his life? In that time if there were problems with some pope, that person would be poisoned or otherwise murdered. So why this unpopular pope didn’t face that fate? And was Boniface VIII so unpopular during his life? This man got votes from the conclave to rise as the most powerful man in the Catholic church in 1294.  He was in his office almost nine years until his death in the year 1303.


Boniface VIII was quite old when he died, even if the birth year of this man were not marked exactly sharp. The age of over 70  was quite much at that time, there were no antibiotics and other conditions of life were not at the same level than today. The reason for the denigration of this pope could not be that this man persecuted somebody. In that time there were lots of people for persecuting, and if the pope mentioned somebody by name, could his enemies find those persons and they might ask what those people made for the most powerful man in Europe?


All heads of the Catholic church came from noble families in the medieval time. The noble status protected them against ordinary people, who were scared by religious and superstition afraid of the Roman Catholic church more than anything else, and sometimes the priests made the sin. And those children were, of course, perfect persons for the high ranking officials for that system. The parents were well known and the church could control the growth of the child. The noble families were perfect places for those children because they were so powerful, that Catholic church could use them as the shield, what covers it secrets from normal or ordinary people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII

Thoughts about freedom of thinking

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In the freedom of thinking is one way, what we might think as very free. This way of thinking is the atheism, and of course, many people say proudly that they are atheists. And one of the greatest atheists is the world is, of course, Joseph Stalin. This man had only one thing in his mind when somebody in the country what was lead by Stalin was talking about the freedom of thinking.


The freedom of thinking was allowed when the way of thinking was same as the Joseph Stalin, and the thinker was like the parrot, who repeated same things as the Joseph Stalin said, and this is why some atheists are very ponderous. They think that the only right way to think about the things is same way then this person has. But there is one thing what makes those persons like Stalin very weird.


They can't stand that somebody has different opinions than this particular person has, and this kind of person uses violence for silent other opinions. They are unable to understand that there are another people in the universe and those another person has right to say that they have the different way to think about the things than this  "the boss" have. This way of thinking was very common in the Roman emperor's palace and emperor Augustus raised himself as the god. When he executed the person's who were not pleased him, this man became very powerful but same way he was very hated.


And after that, the Romans became very hated because the emperor was the Rome, and that way of thinking was caused the destruction of the Roman empire. Because the Emperor was so powerful authority in the Rome, nobody says that if there will be some enemies behind the wall. And if the emperor didn't listen, nothing was done. The emperor might though that the Attila was somewhere in the Middle East, and he woke up until Attila was behind the walls of the city of Rome.  The emperor thought that his legions could destroy the troops of Attila because that was always done before.


And nothing is so sure than unsure. If emperor didn't get information, what he needs,  that would cause the terrible situation. But nobody dares to tell to the emperor, that his legions were lost the battle. If this information was not satisfied the emperor, he might cut the informer's head. In the real life, the system of information or intelligence is not mentioned for please the leaders of the state. Its mission is to get the real information, what is needed when those men make their decisions.


And in this case, the system of the information might give the data, what feels very uncomfortable for the leaders of the state. I think that the emperor of the Rome would need that information, that his legions strength was too weak or their tactics were wrong, that he could defend the Rome. And when the city of Rome was conquered, the magic of Rome was gone. The city was gone, and the power of Rome was ended. The Rome was in the same position as the Soviet Union.


The military power of that nation was so frightened, that nobody ever dares to say anything against it. And the fear what was feed by populist and left-wing movements was build on the statue the rumors of the brainwashed military and the most powerful nuclear weapons, and that guaranteed the position of those movements because they claimed that they were the real friends of the Soviet Union. And of course, the persons who had different opinions than they had were dangerous. If somebody says anything against the great Soviet land, that would cause immediately the military attack against that country.  And that's why everybody must be quiet when the leader of the Soviet Union came to visit in some land. He was able to hear only the worlds what were served the leaders of the nation. And if somebody says anything else, would that person arrested by the police.

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