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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I love you like the retarded brother I never had, but are still drunk from the Cal win?
I'm not a big fan of many of the Catholic church's stances on personal issues (i.e., I'm on a Highway to Hell), but when Father Tom from my old church starts advocating the stoning of rape victim, maybe I'll agree with you.
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We are not that many years removed from Father Tom endorsing the drawing and quartering of heretics, but, putting that aside, the Catholic Church is responsible for just as much grief every day as any imam. If you want to count - I suspect there are a indistinguishly simililar amount of unwanted babies, preventable AIDS cases, paedophilic victims, and people suffering from curable diseases than victims of Islamic jihad or ritual female circumciscion. And that is only the current incarnation of the abomination that has been Catholicism for 2000 years. Standing for the Catholic Church is not an enviable defensive position - if I had to guess, it has killed more people in the name of "God" than Islam ever has.
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[They shot a 70-year old nun in the back.
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"One of the most common forms of medieval inquisition torture was known as strappado. The hands were bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms. Weights could be added to the legs dislocating those joints as well. Other torture methods could include the rack (stretching the victim’s joints to breaking point), the thumbscrew, the boot (some versions of which crushed the calf, ankle, and heel between vertically positioned boards, while others tortured the instep and toes between horizontally oriented plates), water (massive quantities of water forcibly ingested–or even mixed with urine, pepper, diarrhea, etc., for additional persuasiveness), and red-hot pincers (typically applied to fingers, toes, ears, noses and nipples, although one tubular version [the "crocodile shears"] was specially devised for application to the penis in cases of regicide), although it was technically against church policy to mutilate a person's body. If stronger methods were needed, or death, the person was handed over to the secular authorities who were not bound by any restrictions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture
And, not to forget, the Catholic Church's' open support of Nazi Germany, and its role in helping prominent Nazis to escape Germany at the end of WWII. There may be no bloodier hands in the world than the "Christian" "religion of peace" known by the name of "Catholicism."
