Continued from previous.
Still from http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm#FutureInquisition
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Catholics <i>and</i> Protestants</b>
  There were late-Renaissance witch-hunts in Protestant countries, which had no formal connection with the Inquisition but certainly took their impetus from it.
  The chronicler of Trèves (an electoral state of the Holy Roman Empire, also included the jurisdiction of neighbouring Lorraine, France, and Luxembourg) reported that <b>in the year 1586, the entire female population of two villages was wiped out by the inquisitors, except for only two women left alive.</b> Two other villages were destroyed and erased from the map. A hundred and thirty-three persons were burned in a single day at Quedlinburg, Germany, in 1589, out of a town of 12,000. <b>Henri Boguet said Germany in 1590 was "almost entirely occupied with building fires (for witches); and Switzerland has been compelled to wipe-out many of her villages on their account.</b> Travellers in Lorraine may see thousands and thousands of the stakes to which witches are bound."
  In 1524, one thousand witches died at Como, Italy. Strasbourg, France, burned five thousand in a period of 20 years. The Senate of Savoy, a duchy lying between Italy and France, condemned 800 witches at one time. One writer of the times stated that over thirty thousand were executed in the 15th century. Nicholas Remy (1530?-1612), wrote that he personally sentenced 900 witches in 15 years and in one year alone forced sixteen witches to suicide. A Bishop claimed 600 witches in 10 years; a bishop of Nancy, France, claimed 800 lives in 16 years; a bishop of Würzburg, Germany, claimed over 1900 in 5 years. Five hundred were executed within three months at Geneva, Switzerland, and 400 were executed in a single day at Toulouse, France. The city of Trèves burned 7,000 witches. <b>The Lutheran prelate Benedict Carpzov (1595-1666), who claimed to have read the Bible 53 times, sentenced 20,000 devil-worshippers to death. Even relatively permissive England killed 30,000 witches between 1542 and 1736. The slaughter went on throughout Europe for nearly five centuries.</b>
  Mass burnings on the Iberian Peninsula were known as autos-de-fé; acts of faith. They were held once a month on the average, usually on a Sunday or holiday so all could attend; to stay away was thought suspicious. Sometimes the spectators were invited to participate, as in the diversion genially known as "shaving the new Christians." This meant setting fire to the hair or beards of those waiting their turn at the stake. Wholesale burnings in Germany are suggested by the observation of a visitor to the town of Wolfenbuttel, <b>Germany, in 1590: there were so many stakes to burn the witches that the place of execution resembled a small forest. The executioner of Neisse in Silesia (Central Europe) invented an oven in which he roasted to death forty-two women and young girls in one year. Within nine years he had roasted over a thousand persons, including children two to four years old.</b>
Link http://www.quest.za.net/pages/readonline...er8EB.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->And people wonder 'how in the world the christonazis could burn Jews, Roma and Serbs including children in ovens...' The hypocrisy! The whole of christian history is riddled with christians committing these kinds of inhuman massacres - against Jews and other inconvertibles and against their own ('heretics'). The christonazis were merely being the faithful christians of the first half of the 20th century.
This sort of thing is what christians are *good* at: torture and genocide across all continents. It's christianism's "cultural bequest" to mankind.
<b>DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING 2 QUOTEBLOCKS</b> if you value your sanity (but the McCabe quoteblock at the end of this post can be read without losing one's composure). IF can point any future christoterrorist trolls to these:
The Catholic terrorism that preceded the blockquote above:
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm again
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Besides having issued the witchcraft bull, Pope Innocent VIII also launched a sustained and brutal attack on the heretical sect of Waldensians:</b>
"In one village they cruelly tormented 150 women and children, after the men were fled; beheading the women, and <b>dashed out the brains of the children</b>.
  In the towns of Villaro and Bobio, most of those that refused to go to mass, who were over fifteen years of age, they crucified with their heads downwards; and the great number of those under that age were strangled.
  Mutilations of every possible form preceded the coup de grace; in many cases, no final blow was given, the maimed victims being left to die of starvation or bleed to death.
  Isaiah Garcino was literally minced; Mary Raymondet had the flesh sliced from her bones piece by piece until she died in frightful agony.
  Giovanni Pelanchion was tied by one leg to the tail of a mule and dragged through the streets of Lucerne, the mob pelting at his body with stones.
  Ann Charbonierre was transfixed upon a stake and left to die slowly.
  Others were suspended from trees and beams with iron hooks piercing their abdomens.
  Holes were bored in Bartholomew Frasche's heels, ropes were passed through the open wounds, and in this way he was dragged to the dungeon where he died.
  A favourite torture was to place small bags of gunpowder in the mouths of the victims and then set fire to them.
  Daniel Rambaut had his fingers and toes amputated in sections, one joint being cut off each day, in an effort to induce him to embrace the Roman faith.
  Burning at the stake, drowning and suffocation were common methods of execution.
  Sara Rastignole des Vignes, for refusing to repeat Jesus Maria, had a sickle thrust into the lower part of her abdomen.
  Another young woman, Martha Constantine, was raped then killed by cutting off her breasts ..."
<i>Â Â -- The History of Torture, by George Ryley Scott</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Some of the cruelties inflicted on victims of the Third Inquisition under Pope Paul III:</b>
"Â Â A Protestant schoolmaster, Ferdmando, for teaching the principles of his faith to his pupils, was first tortured and then burnt.
  Another Protestant, named John Leon, and some Spaniards of the same faith, on endeavouring to escape to England, were captured by agents of the Inquisition, tortured, starved, and finally burnt.
  For refusing to take the veil and turn nun, a young lady was condemned to the flames.
  Christopher Losada, an eminent physician of his day, for professing the tenets of Protestantism, was racked and burnt.
  A monk of the monastery of St Isidore, Seville, who turned Protestant, was tortured and burnt.
  A Protestant writing master of Toledo, who had decorated the walls of a room in his house with a reproduction of the ten commandments in full, in his own handwriting, was burnt at the stake at Valladolid.
  [Tomas de Leon, was racked] until his left arm was broken.
  Another victim, Engracia Rodriguez, at sixty years of age, had one arm broken and a toe torn off in a device called a balestilla.
  Maria de Coceicao, a young lady from Lisbon, was racked three times before being publicly whipped and banished from her town.
  Antonia Lopez of Valladolid, was tortured for three hours until his arm was completely crippled. [Antonia] tried to commit suicide by strangling himself and died in prison within a month.
  [The Seville noblewoman, Jane Bohorquia, was arrested and imprisoned] for conversing with a friend about the Protestant religion.
  ...She was pregnant at the time, but immediately after the birth of the child, and while still in a lamentably weak state, she was racked with such severity that the flesh was cut through to the very bones and blood gushed from her mouth.
  [She died a week later.]
  "Jane Bohorquia was found dead in prison," said the official Inquisition report, after which, upon reviewing her prosecution, the Inquisition discovered that she was innocent. "Be it therefore known, that no further prosecutions shall be carried on against her, and that her effects, which were confiscated, shall be given to her heirs at law."
  [The heirs at law, according to Pope Innocent III's Corpus juris, were the Church's own treasurers.]"
  -- History of Torture, by George Ryley Scott<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm#FutureInquisition
Joseph McCabe - who used to be a Franciscan monk (IIRC "Father Anthony" was his name in that position) before his deconversion - knows the holy church more intimately than Hindus, so no point arguing with him on this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â ...about the end of the last century, when the new generation of apologists were busy with their glosses on the past and their pretty appeals for universal tolerance, a new manual of Church Law, specially authorized by [Pope] Leo XIII, written by a Papal professor, printed in a Papal press, was published. It was in Latin; and probably few Catholics in America will fail to be astonished to learn that the author states, and proves at great length, that the Church claims and has "the right of the sword" over heretics, and only the perversity of our age prevents it from exercising that right!
  More recent manuals of Church Law have the same beautiful thesis. It is today the law of the Roman Church. Remember it when you read these subtle Jesuits and eloquent Paulists and unctuous bishops on the "blunders" of the past and the right and duty of toleration today, The Inquisition (the Holy Office) exists. The law exists. And you and I may thank this age of skepticism that we keep our blood in our veins.
<i>Â Â -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Still from http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm#FutureInquisition
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Catholics <i>and</i> Protestants</b>
  There were late-Renaissance witch-hunts in Protestant countries, which had no formal connection with the Inquisition but certainly took their impetus from it.
  The chronicler of Trèves (an electoral state of the Holy Roman Empire, also included the jurisdiction of neighbouring Lorraine, France, and Luxembourg) reported that <b>in the year 1586, the entire female population of two villages was wiped out by the inquisitors, except for only two women left alive.</b> Two other villages were destroyed and erased from the map. A hundred and thirty-three persons were burned in a single day at Quedlinburg, Germany, in 1589, out of a town of 12,000. <b>Henri Boguet said Germany in 1590 was "almost entirely occupied with building fires (for witches); and Switzerland has been compelled to wipe-out many of her villages on their account.</b> Travellers in Lorraine may see thousands and thousands of the stakes to which witches are bound."
  In 1524, one thousand witches died at Como, Italy. Strasbourg, France, burned five thousand in a period of 20 years. The Senate of Savoy, a duchy lying between Italy and France, condemned 800 witches at one time. One writer of the times stated that over thirty thousand were executed in the 15th century. Nicholas Remy (1530?-1612), wrote that he personally sentenced 900 witches in 15 years and in one year alone forced sixteen witches to suicide. A Bishop claimed 600 witches in 10 years; a bishop of Nancy, France, claimed 800 lives in 16 years; a bishop of Würzburg, Germany, claimed over 1900 in 5 years. Five hundred were executed within three months at Geneva, Switzerland, and 400 were executed in a single day at Toulouse, France. The city of Trèves burned 7,000 witches. <b>The Lutheran prelate Benedict Carpzov (1595-1666), who claimed to have read the Bible 53 times, sentenced 20,000 devil-worshippers to death. Even relatively permissive England killed 30,000 witches between 1542 and 1736. The slaughter went on throughout Europe for nearly five centuries.</b>
  Mass burnings on the Iberian Peninsula were known as autos-de-fé; acts of faith. They were held once a month on the average, usually on a Sunday or holiday so all could attend; to stay away was thought suspicious. Sometimes the spectators were invited to participate, as in the diversion genially known as "shaving the new Christians." This meant setting fire to the hair or beards of those waiting their turn at the stake. Wholesale burnings in Germany are suggested by the observation of a visitor to the town of Wolfenbuttel, <b>Germany, in 1590: there were so many stakes to burn the witches that the place of execution resembled a small forest. The executioner of Neisse in Silesia (Central Europe) invented an oven in which he roasted to death forty-two women and young girls in one year. Within nine years he had roasted over a thousand persons, including children two to four years old.</b>
Link http://www.quest.za.net/pages/readonline...er8EB.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->And people wonder 'how in the world the christonazis could burn Jews, Roma and Serbs including children in ovens...' The hypocrisy! The whole of christian history is riddled with christians committing these kinds of inhuman massacres - against Jews and other inconvertibles and against their own ('heretics'). The christonazis were merely being the faithful christians of the first half of the 20th century.
This sort of thing is what christians are *good* at: torture and genocide across all continents. It's christianism's "cultural bequest" to mankind.
<b>DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING 2 QUOTEBLOCKS</b> if you value your sanity (but the McCabe quoteblock at the end of this post can be read without losing one's composure). IF can point any future christoterrorist trolls to these:
The Catholic terrorism that preceded the blockquote above:
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm again
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Besides having issued the witchcraft bull, Pope Innocent VIII also launched a sustained and brutal attack on the heretical sect of Waldensians:</b>
"In one village they cruelly tormented 150 women and children, after the men were fled; beheading the women, and <b>dashed out the brains of the children</b>.
  In the towns of Villaro and Bobio, most of those that refused to go to mass, who were over fifteen years of age, they crucified with their heads downwards; and the great number of those under that age were strangled.
  Mutilations of every possible form preceded the coup de grace; in many cases, no final blow was given, the maimed victims being left to die of starvation or bleed to death.
  Isaiah Garcino was literally minced; Mary Raymondet had the flesh sliced from her bones piece by piece until she died in frightful agony.
  Giovanni Pelanchion was tied by one leg to the tail of a mule and dragged through the streets of Lucerne, the mob pelting at his body with stones.
  Ann Charbonierre was transfixed upon a stake and left to die slowly.
  Others were suspended from trees and beams with iron hooks piercing their abdomens.
  Holes were bored in Bartholomew Frasche's heels, ropes were passed through the open wounds, and in this way he was dragged to the dungeon where he died.
  A favourite torture was to place small bags of gunpowder in the mouths of the victims and then set fire to them.
  Daniel Rambaut had his fingers and toes amputated in sections, one joint being cut off each day, in an effort to induce him to embrace the Roman faith.
  Burning at the stake, drowning and suffocation were common methods of execution.
  Sara Rastignole des Vignes, for refusing to repeat Jesus Maria, had a sickle thrust into the lower part of her abdomen.
  Another young woman, Martha Constantine, was raped then killed by cutting off her breasts ..."
<i>Â Â -- The History of Torture, by George Ryley Scott</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Some of the cruelties inflicted on victims of the Third Inquisition under Pope Paul III:</b>
"Â Â A Protestant schoolmaster, Ferdmando, for teaching the principles of his faith to his pupils, was first tortured and then burnt.
  Another Protestant, named John Leon, and some Spaniards of the same faith, on endeavouring to escape to England, were captured by agents of the Inquisition, tortured, starved, and finally burnt.
  For refusing to take the veil and turn nun, a young lady was condemned to the flames.
  Christopher Losada, an eminent physician of his day, for professing the tenets of Protestantism, was racked and burnt.
  A monk of the monastery of St Isidore, Seville, who turned Protestant, was tortured and burnt.
  A Protestant writing master of Toledo, who had decorated the walls of a room in his house with a reproduction of the ten commandments in full, in his own handwriting, was burnt at the stake at Valladolid.
  [Tomas de Leon, was racked] until his left arm was broken.
  Another victim, Engracia Rodriguez, at sixty years of age, had one arm broken and a toe torn off in a device called a balestilla.
  Maria de Coceicao, a young lady from Lisbon, was racked three times before being publicly whipped and banished from her town.
  Antonia Lopez of Valladolid, was tortured for three hours until his arm was completely crippled. [Antonia] tried to commit suicide by strangling himself and died in prison within a month.
  [The Seville noblewoman, Jane Bohorquia, was arrested and imprisoned] for conversing with a friend about the Protestant religion.
  ...She was pregnant at the time, but immediately after the birth of the child, and while still in a lamentably weak state, she was racked with such severity that the flesh was cut through to the very bones and blood gushed from her mouth.
  [She died a week later.]
  "Jane Bohorquia was found dead in prison," said the official Inquisition report, after which, upon reviewing her prosecution, the Inquisition discovered that she was innocent. "Be it therefore known, that no further prosecutions shall be carried on against her, and that her effects, which were confiscated, shall be given to her heirs at law."
  [The heirs at law, according to Pope Innocent III's Corpus juris, were the Church's own treasurers.]"
  -- History of Torture, by George Ryley Scott<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm#FutureInquisition
Joseph McCabe - who used to be a Franciscan monk (IIRC "Father Anthony" was his name in that position) before his deconversion - knows the holy church more intimately than Hindus, so no point arguing with him on this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â Â ...about the end of the last century, when the new generation of apologists were busy with their glosses on the past and their pretty appeals for universal tolerance, a new manual of Church Law, specially authorized by [Pope] Leo XIII, written by a Papal professor, printed in a Papal press, was published. It was in Latin; and probably few Catholics in America will fail to be astonished to learn that the author states, and proves at great length, that the Church claims and has "the right of the sword" over heretics, and only the perversity of our age prevents it from exercising that right!
  More recent manuals of Church Law have the same beautiful thesis. It is today the law of the Roman Church. Remember it when you read these subtle Jesuits and eloquent Paulists and unctuous bishops on the "blunders" of the past and the right and duty of toleration today, The Inquisition (the Holy Office) exists. The law exists. And you and I may thank this age of skepticism that we keep our blood in our veins.
<i>Â Â -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->