Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts

Re:Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts by nitrogen on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:11PM (#7528436)

If an organization claims its legitimacy based on an unbroken line of continuity, and also claims certain fundamental values, then violations of those values at some point in the past should be seen as a break in continuity and a loss of the organization's legitimacy.

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Re:Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts by AutoCorrect on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:28AM (#7529302)

that would then mean that no government in the world is legitimate. Maybe we should invalidate all laws/regs passed during Obama's presidency, since he has fundamentally reneged on the promises he made in his campaign?

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Re:Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts by ivanca on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:30PM (#7529048)

Thanks for this comment, the lack of rationality in this comment thread is astounding.

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