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To: Ronald P. Margraf Sr. who wrote (9261)	11/2/1997 12:19:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

O.K. I take my example from those in the past. The present horrors are hidden and done with no trace. In the old days, well, the church fathers happily wrote nice details and usually did their final horrible deeds in full view of jeering crowds of...mostly "Christian converts." Oh, and priests, laymen and the Pope's personal reps to see that all burned to a cinder well. Not nice to think about, but then my place on earth must be to make brains which cannot or will not look at the past, look at the past. To do away with that theory one must go to any public library and remove and burn all copies of the History of the Middle Ages, including all encyclopedias. Foxes Book of Martyrs is just one tiny overview, and of course written by a Christian. That Christian got all his info from the library. So, looking to them I see a pattern. At some point all fear vanishes, people no longer care, and there is hardly an account of the sign of physical pain of any kind. As a matter of fact, many, many of the good mother church members writing of these accounts mention that the deed simply inspired more Christianity of a "heritick" nature in those watching. There's just so many. The Waldenses, of course, come to mind because the facts are so dreadful, and the extent to which the men, especially, were worked over in public astounds the senses. Basically they were just a bunch of born-agains, and of course the next step, Spirit-filled, who liked to preach Jesus on the streets. My understanding of that 200 years is that it was one big "Jesus Freak Movement", over and over, except the Pope kept sending in soldiers and priests to terminate the bodies of those in whom the Spirit dwelled. Just didn't work at all, until about 1800, the last inquisitional execution was in 1806, if memory serves me, in France. A book called "Early Spanish Exploration in America" goes into great detail of some born-agains whose name I recognize from history, and they were horribly hunted down in our own Florida in the late l600's, and I read a message sent back to the queen about how God and the Church and I believe the Virgin were grandly glorified and Christ was supreme now in Florida. It's like a grotesque and twisted Saturday Night Live skit, but happened. So these things I know to be true and hundreds more. If they did endure as they did, we can, and what bothers me the most, if there is no rapture as I believe is long over due, we will certainly have the opportunity. I think everyone will just have to wait and see what they do at that time. My mind is certainly set on finishing the race, and that's all I know. I'm just praying my head off to get out of here before such time, if the truth be known.