t and give the proceeds to the poor. (Surtz 171) More's point was to exaggerate the picture and incident to get his point across. If the church spread everything out evenly between everyone, and More's ridiculing would not be as effected. It's like someone doing something perfect in everything they do and they never mess up. What is there to criticize about that? But if someone tries to do everything right and messes up once and a while and makes a big deal about it, how easy is it to mock them about the way they do things?
             The Fathers of the Church praised the monks for their voluntary communism and proposed to have it compulsory. Surtz 171) But More brings up the question of how much choice do they really have. They have certain rules set for each and every one of them that must be followed. And yet they still stray from the true meaning of what they are entitled. More was not necessarily against the community houses but More directed his criticism toward the individual monks and friars. More dreaded the thought of what could happen when the power they had gained would mix with a public direction being converted to their own private fortunes and become
             ...