Praise Of Folly

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of money. Erasmus said; “But now they’re perfectly content, as long as they’ve stuffed themselves. As for watching over the flock, they either let Christ take care of that chores or put it off on the curates and the ‘Brethren’, as the call them. They never even think of the meaning of their title ‘Bishop’, which means “overseer,” and implies work, caring, taking pains. Yet when it comes to raking in the revenues, they’re sharp-sighted enough; no ‘careless oversight’ there.” Basically Erasmus wants the leaders of the church to care more about their religion and people then the money they take it. Erasmus favored reason above scripture; therefore instead of breaking away from the church such as Luther, Erasmus favored the moral change and stuck by the pope his whole life.
People also looked up to Erasmus as a mentor filled with knowledge. One Scholar J. Huizinga put it best when he said, “What made Erasmus the mad from whom his contemporaries expected their salvation, on whose lips they hung to catch the word of deliverance? He seemed to them the bearer of a new liberty of the mind, a new clearness, purity and simplicity o...