[BipolarBob]

Now it should be obvious to all that the Inquisition was a good thing which should be restored.

Right on Bro! Nothing smells like reform like a heretic burning in agony. Just when can we expect the Church to reinstate the Holy Inquisition?

[dangus]

>> Right on Bro! Nothing smells like reform like a heretic burning in agony. Just when can we expect the Church to reinstate the Holy Inquisition? <<

You do realize that mas is responding to my post that the majority of “victims” of the Inquisition were sexual abusers, right? That the Inquisition had no authority over anyone who denied being Catholic? That the Inquisition was actually the authority that PUT AN END TO torture? And that it ceased physical punishments more than three centuries before it was halted (or, more accurately, renamed... Pope Benedict actually ran the modern successor to the Papal Inquisition.)?

[mas cerveza por favor]

“Just when can we expect the Church to reinstate the Holy Inquisition?”

Historically, corruption and heresy drag down portions of the Church until at some point there is a bounce. Radical measures are introduced to bring about restoration. Eventually after conditions have been improved, people get lazy again and the cycle repeats itself.

The crisis today appears even worse than the Arian Heresy, and yet there is a strong traditionalist remnant holding out for the restoration.