You can play off your misrepresentation of history all you like - I'll stick to what the historians say.
The same claptrap is used nowadays to defend the Islamist terrorists...it's the CULTURE, and we shouldn't judge, eh? The things done in the Inquisition are WRONG, no matter WHAT age they occur in. You would apparently prefer that no one say, "Never Again". No different from Holocaust deniers.
Your logic is ineffably flawed - because I consider the era in which the Inquisition took place, I am akin to a Holocaust denier? Laughable.
Funny, I always thought that Protestants belived in Jesus and the Bible. They just comitted the "sin" of not shopping for them at YOUR store.
Protestantism is religious rationalism whereby "belief" is derived from interpretation of Scripture and through keeping the customs of each particular sect. It does not stand up to intellectual or historical analysis.
And none must ever dare question it, right? Free Will must really cost you some sleep.
You can question it all you want, if you're so inclined. And no, free will doesn't keep me up at night, but thinking of the poor souls who abuse it and don't give God the respect and worship He deserves might.
It is not the Administration or even the President that you disagree with, let's not be coy. It is the entire Constitution. That document is one I swore to uphold against all enemies foreign and domestic...which now, apparently, includes YOU.
That's a rather rash judgment based on incomplete evidence, don't you think? I might disagree with the INTERPRETATION of a few points - such as the fabricated "right to privacy" extending to abortion, the "non-establishment" clause read as "separation of Church and State," and "freedom of speech" extending to the most vile forms of violence and pornography in music and movies, to name a few - and I would of course prefer the union, or at least the cooperation, of the Church and State as seen in Christendom, but I do not disagree with the entire Constution as you state.
Your words bother me because they go against the very essence of what this country was founded upon.
My preference is a Catholic country to a pluralist one. But I try to make the best of current situation.
BTW, you know exactly NOTHING of how I view the world. You just think you do...egotistical fanatics are like that.
The list of adjectives grows longer. I think we should both be wary of making assumptions.
Considering that your idea of "decent" apparently includes disdain for the Constitution, Liberty and Freedom, support for censorship of thought and word, and a relishing of cruelty and despotism, I'll take that as a high compliment. And as for your "house of cards", mine built the greatest, freest country in the history of the world. Yours repressed it for millennia.
I'd be interested in your working definitions of "Liberty" and "Freedom," which are probably similar to a working definition of hedonism.
And in that time, Christendom has comitted sins which it is now owning up to, consistent with its ORIGINAL teachings. You would have it revert back to its darkest days. In 225 years, America has accomplished things that those Inquisitors you ape could only have dreampt of, if they but had even that freedom.
The Inquisitors didn't hope for a pluralist country in which God would be but an afterthought for most of its citizens, so your revisionism falls flat.
Of course you would. Egotists are like that. Unfortunately, they only truly show you for what you are...a totalitarian.
That's it. After work, I will immediately place an American flag "Power of Pride" sticker on my car to redeem myself.
Easily arranged -- I'll pay your travel costs to the Vatican if you promise to stay there.