LOL I don't really have anything much to write about. Same shit, different day. I could talk about whatever news story, but it would just be rehashing the same mess. It is all a mess and all the same isn't it?
I read a few books over the holiday, and right now I'm reading "The Inquisitor's Manual" by Bernard Gui. Let me tell you, reading it will make you very happy that you live in the 21st century and have secular laws like the Constitution to protect you from religious crazies. Well unless you're unlucky enough to live some place like Iran or Saudi Arabia which are still run by religious zealots :\
Really, if you're American, you should all go and find a statue of Thomas Jefferson and kiss it!
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The religious crazies here are in a constant war against the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteState sanctioned Wahabbist Islam is the drug of choice in Saudi Arabia. Also practiced with dizzying zeal by O bin Laden and Al Qaeda groupies and used in Jihadist rehab programs in Saudi and Yemen. Graduates of Terror's Betty Ford clinics are responsible for planning the attack on Yemen's US embassy and the underwear bomber of xmas day along with other unspecified acts of hatred against we great satans.Happy New Year !
ReplyDeleteReading Gui was frightening. Can you imagine living in a world where you have no rights. No right to a lawyer, no right to be explained anything. All records were kept in Latin, and verbally translated into the vernacular by a notary. You were told what they were writing, but probably couldn't read it even if you were literate, because it was Latin. This is why the Catholic Church railed against the Bible being written in the vernacular. They didn't want people to read it.
ReplyDeleteThere are revisionists who try to say that the Inquisition as an organization never existed. That is a blatant lie, and it is quite evident it is a lie and easily disproved because the Inquisition left us a ton of records. Gui left us a manual on how to do it! He advocates for torture, to extract information any way possible. He advocates for capital punishment (turning the convicted over to the secular authorities) for crimes of thought. They were the proto-police state. And those who think as they do are not gone from this world. They are alive and well here in the 21st century.
Oh, and nowadays people rail on the Muslims for the rampant Antisemitism. The Christians started it. Gui calls Judaism "vomit" repeatedly in the text.