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ebonypearl at 08:15am on 03/03/2008
http://www.newsweek.com/id/117161
“This isn't the first time that the church has tried to show that the judges of the Inquisition were not as brutal as previously believed.”
Somehow, this statement, coupled with an earlier paragraph detailing just how controlling the Church was (determining the types of pajamas people could wear!), doesn’t seem to be adequately supported in the article.
Of course, I come from a belief that freedom and autonomy are important. Nanny-states – either a government or a religion – that controls even the most trivial personal decisions is, to me, a cruel and brutal organization. They back their control with the power of the law, threats of torture, violence, financial ruin, ostracization, segregations, “uniforms” to tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys”, excommunication, and controlled where one lived and worked – and even in what capacity one worked, thus controlling people’s abilities to gain the necessities of life and a few pleasures. Tell me where, in those acts, is the kindness?
Releasing these few documents, with the statement that they "are the most representative of the church's motives and actions." shows that the Church’s aim wasn’t spiritual salvation or searching for divinity, it was to control the wealth and abilities of every man, woman, and child, to dictate – to the most trivial instance – what a person wore, thought, did, went, lived, earned, and ate - and claimed their portion of the earnings to support themselves. No wonder it was desirable to join the Church – instead of being on the suffering end of the scale, Church members were the ones wielding the whips and chains and collecting the profits.
And the Church is releasing documents to support this, claiming it proves how benign they actually were?
How stupid do they think we are?
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In theory, there is an argument to be made that grain fuel is an alternative, renewable source of energy - we can grow more of it, and if we grow it in rotation with soybeans, we can slow the damage to the soil some.
In practice, there are just way too many of us on this planet. And the powers that be are not good at encouraging healthy population reduction. Like all populations, we continue growing until an outside force checks our growth. Unlike most populations, we are damned good at fending off outside forces.
It's going to be an interesting decade.
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Babies is babies, and kids is kids, and they're all meant to be cherished, loved, and raised properly. Doesn't matter who birthed 'em as much as who loves them.
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