[Alex Murphy]

Though there is a certain element which haunts this forum who would denounce you as a heretic, cultist, etc. if you disagreed with them on the size, shape or even whether or not he had a beard. Had these people been living in John Calvin's time, they would have you burned at the stake or beheaded, so they have made some progress. Or maybe they have just lost the power to do it . . .

How do you feel about the Inquisitions, and the other element on this forum who have openly called for its resumption?

[Vigilanteman]

Exactly the same way I feel about John Calvin.

I take a very literal interpretation of the First Amendment. All of it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

There's still an office of Inquisition, which means "Investigation" or "Inquest." (The Inquisition was the historic originator of Procedural Due Process.) Today it is called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF.)

No need to call for its "resumption." It has operated continuously since 1542.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

How do you feel about the Inquisitions, and the other element on this forum who have openly called for its resumption?

Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.

The Inquisition was part of a 700 year-long, successful effort to drive the Mohammedans out of Spain.

Inquisition courts were more fair than those of the kingdom of Spain, or any other contemporaneous European kingdom, Catholic or Protestant.

The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth, perpetuated by the English Protestants.

The name of the Congregation for Universal Inquisition was changed to the Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.

So it still exists(!)