"But how could the church have known that was going to happen?"
Consequences are not the same as intentions. Maybe acquiring land was an unintentional by-product. There might have been a self-reinforcing spiral: by being strict on monogamous marriage the church acquired land, and then it had more incentive to be strict on monogamous marriage, through which it acquired more land etc.
"But how could the church have known that was going to happen?"
Consequences are not the same as intentions. Maybe acquiring land was an unintentional by-product. There might have been a self-reinforcing spiral: by being strict on monogamous marriage the church acquired land, and then it had more incentive to be strict on monogamous marriage, through which it acquired more land etc.
"But how could the church have known that was going to happen?"
Consequences are not the same as intentions. Maybe acquiring land was an unintentional by-product. There might have been a self-reinforcing spiral: by being strict on monogamous marriage the church acquired land, and then it had more incentive to be strict on monogamous marriage, through which it acquired more land etc.
If it was to the disadvantage of Christians they would have adopted a different religion