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One thing that I sort of giggled about during Name of the Rose was the corruption among the monks. Living in their excluded monasaries, depriving themselves of all sorts of humanly things, living the life of a quiet monk. That's what they were supposed to be doing. Instead, there were some who had sex, laughed, and murdered people. Just like the real world. Only they're supposed to be better than us, right? In another one my classes, we had to read Candide by Voltaire. It was written in the 1750s (1754 I think). And in that book, it also portrays monks as disobediant people, no better (and in some cases, far worse) than regular people. They also had sex and were unbelieveably corrupt. and in the movie Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, there's that priest/monk guy who had kept an extreme amount of wealth. Given all these examples (they're fiction I know, but they had to have been based on some form of truth) I find if odd that people in those times were so religious. How could you follow and listen to and agree with someone who was so hypocritical?

alissa :)

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