Radcliffe Emerson

What I want to know is:

Why isn't there a program in the Barbarians series on the History Channel dedicated to the Inquisition?

Amos

According to my interpretation the Inquisition proved that people would rather remain in hell and will endure death by torture in favor of being rescued from hell. Remember here that torture was not a sport, or a way to inflict the greatest pain, but it was done in effort to retrieve a suffering soul from hell. This, of course, is evident by the fact that a confession would always be the end of the inquiry. In other words, there was no crime committed except the possible misleading of future souls who in their turn would also be led into the eternal pit of hell from where the Church was trying to rescue these suffering souls.

Let me add here that it was also wrong to depict Moses as a hero because he really was the villain who led the children of Isreal into the promised land where they did not belong and hence they died. In that story it was wrong to part the waters and Jesus showed us how we must walk on top of the water to get into the promised land so we will have eternal life.

Doctor X

They only had a week.

--J.D.

Amos

Hello Doctor X, I have actually been waiting for you and since you are here now, who are "they?"

Dr Rick

...the History Channel; they are running a short series on "Barbarians" and it includes Hitler and Genghis Khan. They are also featuring Osama bin Laden, who, like those who brought us the Inquisitions, justifies his actions with his religion. The two main practical differences between them is that:

1) Osama calls his enemies kafir and mushrikin instead of "heretics" and his cause a jihad instead of an "inquistion;" and
2) Osama doesn't have as much control over as many people as the Popes did.

Amos

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Except that heretics were not arch enemies but they once were part of the flock wherein they were now working like wolves in sheeps clothing, eager, ready and able to mislead others. Luther and Hitler are good examples of this and this same cannot be said about Osama as far as I can tell.

Koyaanisqatsi

So, it appears from my seat, that everyone is in agreement about:

1. At least 50 to 60,000 innocent people were either ostracized, tortured or killed
2. The numbers could be much higher, and
3. These attrocities were in one way or another officially sanctioned by the Church over several centuries

Does that about cover it?

Amos

I think it is fair to say that they ostracized themselves or were ostracized by the ostracized. This would exclude Jews, of course, who were never Catholic to start with.

Koyaanisqatsi

Oh, well that explains it. The poor dumb bastards. I guess some people just don't realize that the only way to life is death.

Sven

[sarcasm]By sharing your opinions with others, you do a great job in leading people away from christianity! Thanks![/sarcasm]