--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > All of this because you don't want to tell us
> > what it was like to roast people alive?
> >
> > Spoilsport.
>
> Q.E.D.
When are you going to learn?
That phrase ("Quod est demonstratum") is one of the
most common "comebacks" spoken by Inquisitors in
the trial transcripts of the Middle Ages.
To understand the Inquisition (since you obviously
do not, having been inside the cult and thus unable
to view it objectively), you have to understand the
modus operandi of the Inquisitional trials.
The accused was *not* brought to trial to determine
his guilt or innocence. His guilt was a foregone
conclusion. The very fact that he was being tried
by the Inquisition was proof enough of his guilt.
His fate was a done deal.
The *whole point* of the trial, in such a situation,
was to preach to the "audience" of the trials, to
create in them a very tangible fear of the Inquisition
and what could easily happen to *them* if one of their
neighbors (or someone being tortured) named *them* as a
heretic. (The "rule" was that if you had ever spoken
to someone who had been condemned as a heretic, ever
in your life, you could be tried as a heretic yourself.)
Therefore (and interestingly, if one is not as emotion-
ally attached to Inquisitional methods as you are),
the use of "Quod est demonstratum!" as a comeback is
*most often* used after the "heretic" has said some-
thing *innocuous*, the kind of statement *anyone*
might make. It goes sort of like this:
Inquisitor: "So you admit that you bought bread from
Aimeric de Miravel, the baker who was condemned as
a heretic last month?"
Heretic: "Well of course. Everyone in the village
bought bread from M. de Miravel."
Inquisitor: "Quod est demonstratum. The defendant has
condemned himself."
It's good to see that you remember your lessons so
well...
:-)
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