"raven1" <psychedelephant@flashmail.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 03:38:38 GMT, <tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Well, it seems the Pope is all agog over the way civilized societies

throwing off the ancient superstitions as regarding same-sex

relationships .

. . According to the news, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the

(the organization better known as The Inquisition up until the late
1800's -- see:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/inquisition.html )
is weighing in on the subject next Thursday. Like an idle fish

on

a worm, I'm waiting with baited breath . . .
Gee, I knew sooner or later The Inquisition was gonna come for me

or

later . . . anyone in the mood for an Auto-da-fe? Roast leg of Tock?
--Tock

Just as an aside, Tock; you seem all wound up about it. Are you
posting this as a Watchdog? Just wondering what makes you "tick"...
;-)

(Hoping you grok the references...)

Well . . . I was mostly amused that the Inquisition was still active.

read in a book (another amusing volume written around 1960 by a
fundamentalist protestant detailing the many errors of the Catholic

that their name had been changed in the 1800's, and I'd assumed it had

into hibernation. Evidently, like the scriptures themselves, I was in
error.
I'd read a couple books on the Inquisition, and now I've got this weird
picture of a bunch of angry fundamentalist catholics coming for me like

KKK or something. Having seen more than my fair share of "Christian

(friends getting beat up, losing jobs, kicked out of the USAF, preached

"counseled," etc etc) on this issue over the years, I'm still somewhat

with 'em, mostly for wasting 20 years of my life with a bunch of crap.
But mostly, I'm just amused--astonished, really--that the Inquisition is
still around and kicking. You'd think that after 800 years, they would
have learned their lesson . . . evidently not . . .
--Tock