Did you think I was being unfair in the previous post when I implied that Christians yearn for the days of the Inquisitions when they were able to silence their critics by condemning them to the torture chamber in the church basement?
Listen to Dr Scott Lively, a 21st century attorney, pastor, human-rights consultant, and president of Defend the Family International. This is his latest diatribe against the people he refers to as "elites" because they don't belong to the same religion he does. Take notice of the medieval imagery he employs: Imagery that goes all the way back to the Middle Ages; all the way back to the Inquisitions:
The natural family is the ecosystem of humanity! It must be preserved at all costs.How? By a populist uprising! The elites need to see the angry mob – liberals and conservatives together – surging through the streets, pitchforks and torches held aloft, ready to tear down Frankenstein’s castle with their bare hands if need be. For Christians it’s Jesus and the moneychangers time! Making a whip of cords like He did with His own hands, and letting these arrogant puppet-masters know we mean to use it (metaphorically speaking).[...]The only way to deter the elites is with the threat of the mob. They need to see the pitchforks and torches to know they’ve gone too far and need to back down.
Remember, it is impossible to be moral without god
(so say the Christians)
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