Road to Canossa? The Church's only power has historically been delivered through empty promises [heaven], empty threats [hell], and horrific punishments [burnings at the stake for noncompliance] delivered at the Church's behest. Given the Pedophile Protection Agency's cover-up of pedophilia, its child-abuse in Church institutions, rampant misogyny, anti-condom medical-malpractice in AIDS-rampant nations, and its hypocritical stance on homosexuality it remains a horror that any rational person would remain brainwashed about the non-existence that supposedly loves genuflectors and punishes non-believers.
According to contemporary sources, Henry IV was forced to supplicate himself on his knees waiting for three days and three nights before the entrance gate of the castle, while a blizzard raged. Indeed, the episode has been described as "one of the most dramatic moments of the Middle Ages". It has also spurred much debate among medieval chroniclers as well as modern historians, who argue about whether the walk was a "brilliant masterstroke" or an embarrassing humiliation.
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