Week 7 Blog: The Popes take Authority

I enjoyed reading about how the Popes try to take the power from the rulers. Based on how interpretation of Christ's words is so open to any translation, it makes sense that everyone thought differently about who had the real power. The idea that popes could create and depose of emporers was quite a leap from what the Bishops of Rome were supposed to do. It makes sense though, with the rise in interest of Christianity, it seems appropriate that their religous leaders would also be the secular powers. The power struggles that ensued between religion and state were more detrimental than those that we see today--in that these struggles were to determine who had leadership. Currently the debate is based on whether or not religion should anything at all to do with rule.