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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18047)	7/10/2004 5:59:07 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

Interesting article. Some valuable insights although he reaches at times in order to be cute. People can argue till the cows come home as to how many people were murdered during those centuries of insanity. They may argue numbers, and methods, and all sorts of details. People may argue the pragmatic justifications (as Spengler does), or they may argue that it is all a part of God's plan. But when I hear anyone state that the murderers were torturing for confessions because they TRULY wanted absolution for these poor misguided creatures, then I cringe and I hate. These bastards murdered strictly out of self interest. They did it for the money or they did it for the psychotic pleasure. "I am cutting off your tongue and then burning you alive because I love you Honey. I am doing it so that you may be absolved of your sins and walk with Christ." Yeah, yeah...way sweet. It is one thing to kill in war. It is one thing to honestly know an enemy as the enemy knows you as an enemy...and to act in self interest of survival. But to TORTURE someone who cannot respond or fight back? This is cowardice of the highest order. And this is the worst indictment of the Inquisition. It was not about men fighting one another as men over differences. it was about serial killers being supported by the Church/State. It was about legalizing the most psychotic members of humanity--giving them a name tag, a key, and the power and authority to brutalize and murder at will. So the Church may hire a million "scholars" to revision the facts...but rational people will never be fooled as to what happened: Innocent people were taken to market like cattle to be butchered. But unlike cattle, they were not butchered quickly. Rather...they were mutilated and tortured in ways that almost go beyond imagination. We will not be fooled into forgetting by glib and specious revisionism. The Inquisition was not a war between men. It was the loosing and support of serial killers against random and innocent victims. There is nothing in history to match it. There is nothing in the imagination to supplant it. Humanity can go no lower. Perhaps the German medical experiments came close. But after all...they were done by doctors--sigh... ampcast.com

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18047)	7/13/2004 1:48:08 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

"WITCH HUNT" The night is black Without a moon The air is thick, and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right --- Confident their ways are best The righteous rise With burning eyes Of hatred and ill-will Madmen fed on fear and lies To beat, and burn, and kill They say there are strangers, who threaten us In our immigrants and infidels They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves That those who know what's best for us --- Must rise and save us from ourselves Quick to judge Quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice And fear Walk hand in hand

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18047)	7/15/2004 6:52:01 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

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