Right wing theocrats: "Thomas More Law Center"

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/thomas-more-law-center

From their website: http://www.thomasmore.org/cases/all

For those not familiar, meet Thomas More:

http://moralcompassblog.com/2013/04/11/thomas-more-inquisitor-torturer-killer-saint/


An atheist murdered for not following the church?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/17/that-old-time-religion-was-16th-century-writer-christopher-marlowe-an-atheist-and-was-he-murdered-for-it/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/09/09/that-old-time-religion-why-does-sir-thomas-more-torturer-killer-saint-have-so-many-churches-named-after-him/

[Warpy]

1. Thomas More might have been portrayed as a hero in the movies

but what he did to people who failed to pay enough lip service to orthodoxy is the stuff of nightmares.

Burning them alive wasn't the worst. By the time he got around to that they were toothless and missing their fingernails and had their shoulders and hips dislocated by the torturers who operated with his blessing.

He was an evil man whose good attributes didn't extend farther than his family.

He, like the modern theocrats, worshiped the god of assisted living, meaning he had to do god's work on earth because god himself was incapable of it.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The RCC's reverence for this demon is telling.

One may interpret this as the church endorsing torture.

edit: Actually, Pope John Paul II did give an implicit endorsement of torture.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_20001031_thomas-more_en.html

[brentspeak]

4. I was just thinking about "A Man For All Seasons" the other day

I watched the movie (based on the play). What a propaganda job to leave out More's own history of authorizing the torture and execution of "heretics".

[reformist2]

5. Your post should have included that Thomas More vehemently denied all that.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Tom Monaghan's (Domino Pizza) creature.

Protecting right-wing causes.

I'll eat something else.