When the West Started to go Seriously Wrong

Exclusive/ Pepe Escobar- Follow the money. That’s when income from properties owned by temples were transferred to the Catholic Church - thus boosting its economic power.

Exclusive– I write this from the Cynic/Stoic point of view of a 21st century global nomad.

If we need a date, let’s start with Rome in the early 5th century.

Follow the money. That’s when income from properties owned by temples were transferred to the Catholic Church – thus boosting its economic power. By the end of the century, gifts to temples were even forbidden.

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