I guess you had to be there. Hell was worse than the Inquisition. I have read the major books on the Inquisition: there is a case to be made for this institutionNot NOW of course: it would be perverse to believe that reality as we find it could ever endorse something as violent and pitiless and fanatical as the Inquisition. But if you read deeply into the subject you will come away with a view that is distinctly at odds with poor Shadia, who is stimulated by her certainty that God is a fiction. If this (Shadia's essay) was posted at FFL by someone we know here, I would answer it. That is, if some regular poster had written what you posted here from Shadia, yifu, I would subject you to one of my posts. "In Defence of Thomas Aquinas's Relationship to The Inquisition". I believe, then, that Shadia can be answered. Heck, I am even tempted to begin that counter-post right now. But I won't. But in terms of the feel of reality now, of course it would be laughable for anyone to defend the Inquisition. But then? That is another matter altogether.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" <yifuxero@...> wrote: > > Shadia Drury takes on Aquinas: > > http://newhumanist.org.uk/1933/thinkers-thomas-aquinas >
