The RCC [Roman Catholic Church] has a list of forbidden books by which it murders and burns people at the stake..... but their own pope kisses the quran!
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Interesting, as I was Catholic and knew nothing of any list of forbidden books, nor burnings at the stake or any other sort of murder (well, not recently ... yeah, the Inquisition and all that), and I doubt the Pope is a big fan of the Qu'ran.
Although it is interesting to note that during the time in the 7th-9th century, when the Roman Catholic Church was still consolidating its dominance over the so-called "heresiarchs," they considered Islam to be nothing more than another one of the minor pseudo-Christian heresies - not a separate faith at all.
If followed on the whole, Islam isn't that much different than Christianity. There are articles that say that Mohammed took the bible and rewrote it, but I don't know how much stock to put in that. Gary must have been referring to the Malleus Maleficarum, which was used by the Inquisition to detect and try witches. It's an interesting read until you realize that it was taken dead serious by Catholics during the Inquisition.
This guy's got it all backwards -- the RCC issues the same sort of lame "warnings" as fundie sites like CAPalert, but the Index Librorum Prohibitum was abrogated in the late 1940s. I think only Opus Dei (and maybe some of the Traditionalists and sedevacantists) still uses it among the branches of Catholicism; besides, if they tryied to reinstate it, I think Catholic universities around the world, and possibly the Jesuits as an order, would have a problem with that.
@Brian X...besides, if they tryied to reinstate it, I think Catholic universities around the world, and possibly the Jesuits as an order, would have a problem with that.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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