Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01129)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Perry Coles" <perrycoles@y...> 
wrote:
> I think it was Pope "Innocent" that said something like 'this
> myth of Christ has served us well'

It was pope Leo X and thr quote is:

"What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"

The source is Barbara Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and 
Secrets. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983, p. 471. Taylor renders 
this: "It was well known how profitable this fable of Christ has been 
to us." (Robert Taylor, The Diegesis, 1860, p. 35n.) Leo X's real 
name was Giovanni de Medici, He became pope when his predecessor 
Julius II was murdered in 1513 and exploited the Catholic Church for 
his personal gain until his own murder in 1521. In between murders 
Giovanni was the teacher of morals to the Christian world. Methinks 
he did not know enough to teach.