Non-praying Mantis

Auto-da-fe, what's an auto-da-fe?

ashibaka

It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway!

tracer

If that qualifies as reasonable, then I guess that makes Jack Chick reasonable too.

fumamaria

Uhgh! What a pathetically simplistic webpage! Sorry man, but this web page is just as guilty of confusing "Roman Catholic" with "catholic", BUT, I do see where your point it taken. Beware though, usually people who make such assertions about roman Catholicism are even SCARIER snake-charmin', toungu-speakin', jew-hatin' ultra conservative protestants, the likes of which I'm SURE people on this page really dislike!

Hazel-rah

Literally: "Act of the faith."

It was the trial of a person accused of heresy during the Inquisition; or more specifically, the pronouncement and execution of the sentence. Hence my reference to barbecuing, though it also included hanging and other forms of death, not to mention confiscation of the victim's temporal property and the disinheriting of the victim's heirs. (That's why rich, unconnected people were often accused of heresy, especially during the Spanish Inquisition on Torquemada's watch... the Church had cast a covetous eye on their lands. Chasing down heretics is an expensive project, especially when the king was taking his cut to finance a war.)

tracer

Whoooosh!

(Psst, Hazel-rah, go rent the Mel Brooks movie History of the World, Part I.)

(Or did I just get Whooshed here?)

Hazel-rah

Wow, I wondered what that sound was. m

Dork, me. I'm off to edit my Netflix queue so I may complete my education in real life.