[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by shovelbum[/i]
<br>Ha ha. I doubt you'd find it with either. It is actually a work of the Catholic Church in which they describe the ways to interrogate, sentence, and punish (in other words, EXECUTE) supposed witches.[/quote]
Shuvie-shuv-shuvs.....I expect more from a higher education scholar like yourself. While the Malleus Maleficarum was written by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, two members of the Dominican Order and Inquisitors for the Catholic Church, it was immediately condemned in 1487 (the year of it's first publication) by the University of Cologne's Faculty of Theology on unethical and illegal grounds. The Catholic Church subsequently banned the book in 1490, placing it on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
But it is good resource material to enforce an obtuse philosophical grudge against the Catholic church. Some might say witch hunt.....
http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/
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And so your point is...? Your statement still maintains the fact that it was written for the Catholic Church, commissioned by none other than Pope Innocent the VIII, and was an instruction manual for the interrogation, sentencing and punishment of supposed witches.
As for your choice of the word "obtuse", I respectfully refute it. To suggest that the words and actions of the Catholic Church do not to this day effect people (positively and, more specifically, negatively) is in itself an obtuse viewpoint.
Witch hunt indeed. The Inquisition officially closed in 1834, at which time between 100,000- 5 million people were killed. 85% were female. These numbers do not include those who died during interrogation, they merely reflect official executions.
But this is depressing information! This post is about Christmas and presents!
Let there be peace on earth and joy to the world. Where's my spiked eggnog?! [:)]
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