--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > Not content to make up things about people she considers > > her enemies, now Judy makes up "facts" about the Inquisition. > > That's a very Inquisitor-like thing to do. :-) > > > > Even a short period of Googling would reveal how wrong she > > is about several things below, like being 354 years off on > > the "start date," as reported even by apologist Catholic > > organizatins. I'm pointing it out just so that she'll > > go crazy trying to prove herself RIGHT, DAMNIT and make a > > fool of herself for our amusement. :-) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg > There aint't no doubt about it, she's lying. She makes up > little quibbles continuously to be able to call other's > liar and that is a lie as well.
The way you know who the liars are is whether, after being called on their lies, instead of attempting to prove themselves innocent, they accuse the person who has exposed them of lying and never try to document that either. For the record, I don't think Barry was lying about Ratzinger; he was just ignorant of the facts (as is navashok). There's more than enough reason to denounce Ratzinger on the basis of what he's actually done (and not done), but "He brought back the Inquisition" sounds so *dramatic*. Stupid, too, for Barry to claim the Inquisition of which Ratzinger became the head had previously been "abolished"--as if the Vatican would ever have sat back and allowed heresy against the doctrines of the Church to flourish unimpeded within its ranks. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > (snip) > > > > I was never Catholic, and don't know much about Pope > > > > Benedict, other than his uncanny resemblance to the > > > > Sith Emperor from Star Wars :-), and what was said > > > > about him before he was elected Pope, which was that > > > > he was one of the most feared men in Catholicism. I > > > > do know that he was the person who brought *back* the > > > > Inquisition to the Church, after it had finally been > > > > abolished after 600 years, and led it for many years. > > > > > > For the record, this is not true. The Inquisition has > > > been in continuous operation since it was established > > > in 1542. It was never abolished (nor has it been around > > > for 600 years!). It has undergone a couple of name > > > changes; since 1965 it's been called the Congregation > > > for the Doctrine of the Faith. > > > > > > Of course it doesn't burn anybody at the stake these > > > days. > > > > > > Ratzinger was named Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation > > > by Pope John Paul II in 1981. > > > > > >
