2006-09-27 07:52:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sub-conscious?
2006-09-27 07:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I don't think that anyone in their right mind wants to see the Inquisitions (there were four primary manifestations, by the way, not just one) begun again. Keep in mind that the Inquisition occurred largely at a time when literacy was not widespread. Priests were the only ones permitted to interpret the word of God, and thus, they were given the power to determine heresy.
Today, anyone can read the Bible for themselves, and we no longer depend on the church to guide our morals. Even if someone did desire to bring back the Inquistion, it would be difficult to enact.
2006-09-27 08:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by whtknt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they have a sub-conscious desire to bring back the concentration camps. Those were far more efficient than the 16th century kangaroo courts.
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2006-09-27 09:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naaah, because unfortunately the only copy of the Inquisition's Guide of Divine Torture was lost in the fire of Shrewsbury Abbey in 1485, when a young Monk carrying a large pot of boiling tar, to scald a witch, tripped and fell on the fire.
2006-09-27 08:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not the real ones! Was it really Christians who started and were apart of the inquisition or was it people who were power hungry heathens who weren't really believers but figured that if they could use religon to conquer the world then why not remeber not everybody who claims to be christian is!!
2006-09-27 08:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by livingforhim2006 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No! I think you have a subconscious desire to serve the Lord, but your conscious desire to put his people down over rides it.
2006-09-27 07:56:22 · answer #6 · answered by Robert L 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I strongly suspect that there are a number of pwerful Christian conservative groups that would love to bring a new Inquisition to the world...or at least the US. A few of them have even said so...
"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
-- John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999, upon receiving an honorary degree at ultra-right-wing and ultra-fundamentalist Bob Jones University, also known for its anti-African-American segregationist policies
"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America."
-- Pat Buchanan, campaign address at an anti-gay rally in Des Moines, Iowa, February 11, 1996
"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
-- Pat Buchanan, speaking before the Christian Coalition in 1993, quoted from Political Amazon's "Quotes from Hell"
"Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country."
-- Pat Buchanan, 1990, quoted from Political Amazon's "Quotes from Hell"
"I believe this notion of the separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination."
-- Rev W A Criswell, interview, CBS Evening News, August 23, 1984.
"I proudly declare this country of ours [the United States] to be thoroughly Christian and Catholic in its very roots. And if, with the passing years, there have been grafted on to it elements which are neither Christian nor Catholic, then I say, let us take a sharp pruning knife to them and cut them off forever."
-- Rev Charles E Curley, Brooklyn Tablet, July 3, 1943; quoted from Joseph Lewis The Ten Commandments (p. 561)
"We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)
"If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth."
-- Jerry Falwell, "Moral Majority Report" for September, 1984
"The leaders of our country are going to give count to God with how they deal with witchcraft because our precious single soldiers are going to be involved in it if they allow it on military forts."
-- Rev Jack Harvey, overreacting to Gov. George W Bush's insistence that Wicca is not a religion, and that military bases should not allow Wiccans the same freedoms that Christians enjoy, quoted from Peggy Wehmeyer, "Witches in Combat Boots," from ABCNEWScom, June 23, 1999
"We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth."
-- Rev R L Hymers, praying for the deaths of Justice William Brennan and four other Justices (1986), quoted from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
"If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college."
-- Benjamin Jowett, allegedly responding to a student who had announced to him that he could find no evidence for the existence of a God (attributed), quoted from Encarta Book of Quotations (1999)
"How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ."
-- D James Kennedy, caught in a very subtle lie, considering that in order to “reclaim” America for Jesus, she needs to have once been usurped from such a former status; quoted from the People For the American Way pamphlet, “Hatred and Bigotry ... [sic] it’s NOT the American Way.”
"Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."
-- Beverly LaHaye, quoted from the People For the American Way pamphlet, “Hatred and Bigotry ... [sic] it’s NOT the American Way.”
"I'll tell you what is wrong with America. We don't have enough of God's ministers running the country."
-- Rev Tim LaHaye, address, Religious Roundtable breakfast, New York Times September 8, 1984, quoted from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
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"I shall never be in full sympathy with our system of compulsory education until there is set up side by side with it a system of compulsory religion."
-- Rev W D Lewis, quoted from E Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism" (rev. C Walker, 2001)
"We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, "We've had enough," we are going to take over."
-- Pat Robertson, speech given to the April, 1980 "Washington for Jesus" rally
"We are now in the process of putting born-again Christians on every school board in America.... A school board with five members needs only three Christians to take complete control of a school district. You can literally own that system and control all personnel, curriculum, materials, textbooks and policies."
-- Robert L Simonds, quoted from Texas Freedom Network
2006-09-27 08:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your contentious mindset indicates you are not Christian! No it is not the Christians that want to judge but rather the non-christian!
2006-09-27 07:56:39 · answer #8 · answered by K9 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
After being on this board a while, one would think so.
2006-09-27 07:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by Ana 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, the desire, if they have it, is quite conscious.
2006-09-27 07:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋