• UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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    The problem is, from what I’ve heard, the black plauge killed all the good priests. Since they were the ones to go and read a person’s last will and testament, they would also end up catching the plauge a lot of the time. So eventually all the smart and respectable priests died, leaving them desperate for anyone. So from then the churches have been lead by undesirable

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        What? Priests before the plauge were the ones who could read and write, and were chosen to be good carriers of the message. And those people, thinking they were doing the right thing by helping the dying go to heaven, caught the disease which wasn’t known as the black plauge yet.

        They were wiped out almost immediately because of it. The churches then went to the second options, which followed soon after. It kept going until the churches were desperate for anyone to go a say the last rites.

        So yeah then malicious people ended up taking over, but nature definitely caused the change.

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          Malicious people infiltrate structures with strong authority all the time. They just need time to work their way up, not a plague.

          It is funny that you think shitty priests were just hanging in the wings as second stringers.

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            It is funny how I said the second stringers died soon after the first and you just completely disregarded that

            The churches then went to the second options, which followed soon after. It kept going until the churches were desperate for anyone to go a say the last rites.

            Your point is correct, no church was infallible before the plauge happened. I’m just stating the plauge made it exponentially easier for infiltration to occur as those opposing it were literally dying trying to be good people.