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To: Brumar89 who wrote (23336)	3/22/2012 4:07:35 PM
From: average joe	3 Recommendations Respond to of 69300

Italian Catholics would castrate young boys to preserve their singing voices. en.wikipedia.org The Catholic Church's position on castrati: According to Rotten.com, in the late 16th century, "Pope Clement VIII became smitten with the sweetness and flexibility of their voices. ... While some Church officials suggested it would be preferable to lift the ban on women singers than to continue endorsing the castration of little boys, the Pope disagreed, quoting Saint Paul, 'Let women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak.' ... since it was illegal to perform castrations, ... all castrati presenting themselves for the choir claimed to have lost their genitals through tragic 'accident'." "After the Pope’s official acknowledgement and acceptance of castrati, the number of these "accidents" increased dramatically. Parents seeking upward mobility towed their little lads down to a barber or butcher who separated them from their testicles for a fee. 5 One source estimates that, during the 17th and 18th centuries, three to five thousand boys per year in Italy were castrated . Castration was forbidden under canon law. The church condemned the practice and occasionally excommunicated the person responsible for the surgery. 6 But the church simultaneously created a market for castrati by hiring them for its church choirs. By about 1789, there were more than 200 castrati in Rome's chapel choirs alone. 7 religioustolerance.org

To: Brumar89 who wrote (23336)	3/22/2012 10:22:36 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

A few hundred years ago in most countries of the world the church was heavily intertwined with the politics and justice system. The Inquisition in Spain is what happens when church and government work together. newadvent.org When a government adopts religious beliefs it needs to purge society of anything opposed to those beliefs. "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community." ushmm.org