No Love for Rome?

[beejazz]

Beejazz-You have no idea how cool i find that.  Leo X was my least favorite pope, and yet the most amusing in history (he had naked boys come out of one of his birthday cakes), and that is such a cool idea for a history location.  Thanks you very much for that.

Woah... really? That's a strange thing for a pope to have popping out of his cake!

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Beejazz-You have no idea how cool i find that.  Leo X was my least favorite pope, and yet the most amusing in history (he had naked boys come out of one of his birthday cakes), and that is such a cool idea for a history location.  Thanks you very much for that.

Woah... really? That's a strange thing for a pope to have popping out of his cake!

I don't think "strange" is the word you are looking for, here.

[beejazz]

I'm really at a loss for words. Still.

[Cheomesh]

I have never heard that before...

M.

[Polycarp]

Woah... really? That's a strange thing for a pope to have popping out of his cake!

Not all medieval popes were pious guys.  As Gibbon wrote about the trial of John XXIII, "the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, rape, sodomy, and incest."

[Llum]

Some of the old school popes put pretty much anything modern to shame. Cracked.com top 5 badass popes has some gems.

[EvilElitest]

Leo's motto was "God created the Papacy, lets us enjoy it"
there is a reason why Martin Luther's claims started to be taken seriously at this time period.  

I think people don't pay attention to rome because everyone takes it for granted, dispite the fact it was really a complex and interesting culture (as you might haven noticed, i'm a fan of the I cladius, Rome and what not lol)

[Elemental_Elf]

i'm a fan of the I cladius

I love I Claudius!

[EvilElitest]

There is nothing in this wold that has occurred to you that hasn't occurred to me first, its an affliction of mine