Vatican opens Inquisition archives for study--Handy Blueprint for TheoCons

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Nov. 20, 2004, 6:55PM

Vatican opens its Inquisition archives for study
By PHILIP PULLELLA
Reuters News Service
• Beginning: Pope Gregory IX created the Inquisition in 1233 to curb heresy, but civil authorities took over prosecutions.
• Ending: It reached a peak in the 16th century to counter the Reformation.


VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is opening up more of its archives on the Inquisition as part of unprecedented study of the effect the Roman Catholic Church's attempt to control religious belief had on medieval and modern history.

The new project, announced last week, will see the Holy See cooperate with Italy's Culture Ministry and universities to catalogue thousands of documents about the Inquisition.


"Such a vast project has never been attempted before and it will be of great importance to respond to the new trends in international research of the control of religious ideas in medieval and modern Europe," a Vatican statement said.

Last week's Vatican statement said the project would catalogue documents concerning both the Roman Inquisition and the Spanish Inquisition.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2910263

[lil-petunia]

1. the docs were vetted before being released

there are entire corridors of writings and books that are deemed too dangerous to the church to ever get out.

Much of the so called research is going to be quite controlled.

Anyone recall how they tried to stymie the Dead Sea Scrolls research?

[PATRICK]

2. Irony

The Church was burgeoning with its own education and information new age at that time and the ideas were bursting the seams of order and orthodoxy which hadn't been so hot up to that point anyway.

To control the spread of highly educated new ideas doctrinal hounds were loosed to prevent another surge of heresy that had first plagued the Church in its early centuries, again a time of Empire and rapid spread of cults and information.

Now we have the same situation. The spread of information, the real globalism of democracy and truth threatens old order Empire seeking to inherit the age. Capitalism, Christian 'values" etc do run rampant in the halls of Congress that legislates our national forums.

Ergo: it can get very bad, this conflict, each ruining the other when in reality there was nothing to fear except ignorance and entrenchment.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. History of the World - PART II

The Inquisition (Let's begin)
The Inquisition (Look out sin)
We have a mission to convert the Jews (Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew)
We're gonna teach them wrong from right.
We're gonna help them see the light
and make an offer that they can't refuse. (That those Jews just can't refuse) Confess, don't be boring. Say yes, don't be dull.
A fact you're ignoring:
It's better to lose your skull cap than your skull (or your govalt!)
The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquistion (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!

"I was sitting in a temple. I was minding my own business.
I was listening to a lovely Hebrew mass.
Then these Papus persons plungered and they throw me in a dungeon and they shove a red hot poker up my ass.
Is that considerate? Is that polite?
And not a tube of Preperation H in sight!"

"I'm sittin' flickin' chickens and I'm lookin' throught the pickins' and suddenly thes goyim pull down valls.
I didn't even know them and they grabbed my by the stoghum and started playing ping pong with my balls!
Ooh, the agony! Ooh, the shame!
To make my privates public for a game?"

The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquisition (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to-
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way."
"I just got back from the Auto-de-fe."
"Auto-de-fe? What's an Auto-de-fe?"
"It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway."
Will you convert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you confess? "No, no, no, no."
Will you revert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you say yes? "No, no, no, no!"
Now I asked in a nice way, I said, "Pretty please."
I bent their ears, now I'll work on their knees!
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way. We got a little game that you might wanna play, so pull that handle, try you're luck."
"Who knows, Toq, you might win a buck!"

"How we doin', any converts today?"
"Not a one, nay, nay, nay."
"We flattened their fingers, we branded their buns!
Nothing is working! Send in the nuns!"

The Inquisition, what a show.
The Inquisition, here we go.
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away!
So all you Muslims and you Jews
We got big news for all of yous:
You'd better change your point of views TODAY!
'Cause the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!