>>513064518
Hot take, the banking system was invented by a catholic state, the first nation states in Europe were catholic and the two largest empires in history up to the 18th century were catholic. Now i'm not a catholic, but saying catholics can't do the shit they pretty much invented is bullshit.
"Almost infinite" isn't a thing, it was finite and it caused inflation across Europe, which devalued it. And we didn't waste it on "war and churches" we had to repay giant debts to the bankers who financed imperial administration, fund the defense of a whole continent and various countries around the world and suck geopolitical catholic dick to resist ottomans and protestants.