Having read most of this thread, the following quote came to mind:
...I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do and to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.
[Pope Paul III, 1576]
I had hoped that we had evolved some since then. Now I am not sure.<g> Time for me to remove this bookmark and move on.
Cisco |
