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I am very weary of propagandists who confuse the Roman Catholic Church with the Holy Roman Empire.
The Holy Roman Empire, as historians have repeatedly pointed out, was not Roman -- it was Germanic and Central European, it was not an empire -- it was an alliance of several autonomous kingdoms and principalities, and it was not Holy -- most of the territory it covered was a hodgepodge of pagan cults which actually claimed superiority over Christianity.
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