The evil streak runs long and deep - refusal to use its power to save Jews from Hitler - architect of the Roman Inquisition, seeing to it that heretics were burned at the stake. Listen to the Duke of Urbino’s description of the Church’s depravity when pope Clement VIII approved the execution of a Scottish unbeliever in 1592:
The execution was carried out in Campo de’ Fliori, where to terrify him a huge pile of firewood, charcoal, kindling, and more than ten cartloads of pitch had been prepared, and for the occasion a shirt of pitch was made for him that extended from his waist to his feet, black as coal, and then it was put over his naked flesh so that he would not die as quickly, and his life would be consumed in the fire as painfully as possible. He was conducted to the scaffold with a large escort, and made to sit on an iron chair next to the fire, which had already been lit. The usual protest was made on his behalf, as one does for good servants of God, in order to see him repent: that there was still time to obtain grace, but, as soon as he had mounted the iron chair, he threw himself with a great hurry into the burning flames, and buried in them, he died in these earthly flames to spend an eternity in those other flames of hell. (From page 11 of a book about another heretic the Church burned at the stake: Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic, by Ingrid D. Rowland. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008.)
Where once the Church was satisfied with burning people at the stake, today it aims to burn the entire Earth. We mean the Church’s anti-birth control policy which is responsible for the ever-increasing deluge of babies, and so global warming, destroying plant and animal life everywhere on Earth.
Birth, birth, birth brings burn, burn, burn.
For a brief biography of Giordano Bruno, click here.
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