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Originally posted by answerisquestion
Remember the Nights Templar where one of the first know bankers only to be wiped out by orders of the pope maybe the Vatican used to run the economy and have banking control...then they realized they needed a front man...
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by answerisquestion
Remember the Nights Templar where one of the first know bankers only to be wiped out by orders of the pope maybe the Vatican used to run the economy and have banking control...then they realized they needed a front man...
The Romans had a complex banking system much earlier than this and their word for it, bancu, is where we derive the modern word. It was the fall of the Western Empire which lead directly to the end of banking in Europe until the times of the Crusades.
Originally posted by answerisquestion
I meant that maybe the Templar nights simply became too big a competition for the Romans/Vatican that is why they wiped them out ...but before all this they decided to create the Vatican for cover...
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by answerisquestion
I meant that maybe the Templar nights simply became too big a competition for the Romans/Vatican that is why they wiped them out ...but before all this they decided to create the Vatican for cover...
From the fall of the Western Empire to the Crusades there was no form of large-scale banking in Europe so there was no competition. The Vatican existed prior to the Crusades, it is the reason we even had the Crusades. Your theory is flawed on many historical levels.
Originally posted by answerisquestion
you are right my theory is flawed...this could not be true the church has done so much things good for us...
...how can I delete my thread?