It
wasn't until 1816 that the Catholic Church declared
Inquisitional torture was no longer a valid practice.
However, it wasn't until 1917 that the Codex
Juris Canonici Papal Bull finally
banned ordinary
church sanctioned torture.
Father
John Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien, was a paedophile priest.
He sexually abused Christopher Carrie of Solihull (near
Birmingham, England), who was awarded £15,000 in
compensation after he sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Birmingham for breaching its duty of care. Carrie was
abused when he was a member of the 159th English Martyrs
scout group in Sparkhill, Birmingham. Tolkien was the
scoutmaster.
Reverend
Bill Beaver is the head of communications for the Church
of England! (See here for confirmation: http://www.churchnewspaper.com/news.htm - the information may not be up
for long after 19th May 2001 due to the nature of the
page.)
The
word 'sackbut' appears in the Christian bible four times
(in lists of musical instruments). The sackbut - the
forerunner of the modern trombone - was not invented
until the 11th century CE.
70%
of the Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament.
According
to Sharia law, Muslim men can divorce their wives by just
pronouncing the word "Talaq!" to them three
times in front of a witness. It is now possible to send a
triple "Talaq!" via a text message and achieve
the same result. The same privilege is not afforded to
Muslim women.
In
1993, the toddler James Bulger was brutally murdered by
the ten-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Both
the murderers were pupils at St. Mary's Church of England
school, Liverpool. The unusually horrific nature of their
crime was described as "unparalleled evil".
Beethoven
shunned religion and scorned the clergy.
The
following is from a 2003 report in Portugals largest
daily newspaper, Jornal de Noticias:
Hemorrhoid
suffering pilgrims are forsaking conventional medicine
and trekking to the town of Murtosa, Portugal. Once
there, they rub their affected region(s) against a statue
of St. Gonacalo, in the hope of relief.
(The
13th-century priest depicted in the statue was meant to
be able to cure acne.)
At
St Andrew's Church of England primary school in Keighley,
West Yorkshire, 95 % of the pupils are Muslims.
The
Catholic Church considers the Shroud of Turin to be a 14th
century pious fraud.
From
my dictionary:
Cretin
/ 'kretin/ n. person with deformity and
mental retardation caused by thyroid deficiency; colloq.
stupid person; cretinism n.;
cretinous a. [F crétin (CHRISTIAN)]
According
to extensive Franciscan research, there is no
archaeological evidence of a settlement at Nazareth prior
to the second century CE.
There
is no biblical support for Sunday as being the day to set
aside for worship.
After
Mark Twain described Joseph Smith's novel The Book of
Mormon as "chloroform in print" it was marketed
as a new Bible.
Each
instrument of torture used in the Holy Inquisitions was
blessed by a priest before it's initial use.
The
movies 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Psycho', and 'Buffalo
Bill' from 'Silence of the Lambs' were (very loosely)
based on the real-life character of Wisconsin christian
serial killer Ed Gein (1906-1984). His mother was a
strict christian and raised Gein in a highly religious
environment. After his arrest, the following artifacts
were discovered (amongst many disturbing others) at his
house:
Lampshades made from
human skin
A
belt made from nipples
Four
noses and a heart
A
table with shin-bone legs
A
human head
A
bowl made from the top of a human skull
Salted
female genitals in a shoe box
A
pair of lips on a string curtain pull
A
shirt of human skin complete with (real) female
breasts
Shrunken
heads on his bedposts
A
suit made from human skin
The
faces of nine women, mounted on a wall
A
coffee can tom-tom with human drum 'skins'
A
head with large nails hammered through each ear
Half-eaten
meals of human flesh (in his fridge)
|
 Ed Gein
Gein's christian
gravestone
|
...
amongst his other grizzly acts, he confessed to dancing
around in the moonlight outside his house whilst wearing
his mother's skin.
The
English publishers who printed Thomas Paine's 'The Age of
Reason' were jailed for blasphemy.
In
the Islamic State of Mogadishu, Somalia it is illegal to
impersonate Elvis without a beard.
The
entrails removed during the embalming of all the popes
since Pope Sixtus the Fifth are held in terracotta jars
in the church of Santi Vincenzo ed Anastasio, opposite
the Trevi fountain, Rome. But the mummified husks of the
popes are held underground in the grotto at St. Peter's
Basilica in the Vatican.
During
the third crusade King Richard I ate curried head of
Saracen.
During
a new embalming procedure first tried on pope Pius the
Twelfth, his head turned black and his nose fell off.
Pope
Gregory VII was 4ft 1in 'tall'.
Martin
Luther suffered from chronic constipation. And
haemorrhoids.
'Evil's
agent' is an anagram of Evangelist.
According
to the predictions of Nostradamus, the world ended in
"1999 in the seventh month" due to a massive
comet impact.
According
to the Christian Bible, Jesus is NOT the Christian God's
only begotten son.
At
least 13 churches world-wide claim to own Christ's
foreskin.
St
Agatha is the patron Saint of sterility.
Pope
Adrian IV, Nicholas Breakspear - the only English Pope -
choked to death when he accidentally swallowed a fly.
Emperor
Menelik II of Ethiopia ate pages from the Bible - he was
convinced that it would cure illness. In 1913 he died
from a stroke whilst attempting to eat the entire Book of
Kings.
Pope
Alexander VI, Al Capone, King Herod of Judea, Pope Leo X,
Adolf Hitler, Pope Julius II, John Milton, Benito
Mussolini, Cardinal Richelieu and the Marquis de Sade
were all syphilitics.
Sri
Lanka has a temple dedicated to one of Buddha's teeth.
At
his trial in February 1992, the Wisconsin cannibal
Christian, Jeffrey Dahmer, admitted that he had performed
Do-It-Yourself lobotomies on some of his victims. He was
hoping to turn them into "zombie sex slaves".
Papaphobia
is a fear of the Pope.
In
the Christian Bible the only book that forgets to mention
God is the Book of Esther.
In
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Christian Church
declared a Holy War on cats. Ending in a Europe devoid of
said felines. The rat population exploded, thus ushering
in the Europe-wide plague.
St
Dympna is the patron Saint of mental illness.
Between
1970 and 1980, the Vatican was the third most wealthy
nation in the world behind America and Japan.
Pope
Leo VII, Pope John VII, Pope John XIII and Pope Paul II
all died during the act of sexual intercourse.
Before
instituting his genocidal purges, Pol Pot was a novice
Buddhist monk.
At
the age of 80, in the year 483 BC, Buddha died from an
intestinal haemorrhage. He had been eating a hot curry.
Pope
Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) was reputed to have
committed his first murder at the age of 12.
...and
in 1503 his last words were, "Wait a minute...".
The
US-based Morris Cerullo World Evangelism Organisation
predicted that the end of civilisation and the
destruction of all sinners would occur in the year 2000.
Sex
with animals was banned by the Christian church at the
Council of Ankara in 314 CE. Adultery had been banned
from the beginning.
"Hits
the angel shite" is an anagram of "The English
Atheist".
Crucifixion
was a commonplace method of execution in the Roman
occupied territories. The emperor Nero liked to nail up
his victims in the upside-down position.
During
World War II, priests often sprinkled Hitler's troops
with Holy water. Soldiers of the Vermacht wore belt
buckles inscribed with the following: "Gott
mit uns" (God is with us).
The
last date for executing a witch is:
Holland
- 1610
England
- 1684
America
- 1692
France
- 1745
Germany
- 1775
Poland
- 1793
St
Denis is the patron Saint of syphilis.
...who
is not to be confused with St Fiacre, the patron saint of
non-specific venereal diseases and haemorrhoids.
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