Pills of OUR History (24)
1534
(regarding the monks)
"It is also too true - Gargantua replied - that the robe and the cowl attract all sorts of horrors, insults, and curses from the world, just as that wind called the Cecias attracts clouds. And the unassailable reason is that they swallow the filth of the world, namely sins, and like dung-eaters, they are pushed back into their dens, which would be their convents and monasteries, separated from all civil society, just as toilets are separated in houses... a monk (I mean those lazy monks) does not till the land like a peasant, does not defend the homeland like a warrior, does not heal the sick like a doctor, does not admonish or instruct the people like a good evangelical preacher or a pedagogue, does not bring necessary comforts to the world like a merchant. For this reason, they are harassed and abhorred by all."
(F. Rabelais)
BRUCEREMO LE CHIESE. Storica satira anticlericale
1534
(regarding the monks)
"It is also too true - Gargantua replied - that the robe and the cowl attract all sorts of horrors, insults, and curses from the world, just as that wind called the Cecias attracts clouds. And the unassailable reason is that they swallow the filth of the world, namely sins, and like dung-eaters, they are pushed back into their dens, which would be their convents and monasteries, separated from all civil society, just as toilets are separated in houses... a monk (I mean those lazy monks) does not till the land like a peasant, does not defend the homeland like a warrior, does not heal the sick like a doctor, does not admonish or instruct the people like a good evangelical preacher or a pedagogue, does not bring necessary comforts to the world like a merchant. For this reason, they are harassed and abhorred by all."
(F. Rabelais)
BRUCEREMO LE CHIESE. Storica satira anticlericale
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