Jain, Vatican Defends Inquisition, Vampire Woman Strikes Again, Oprah and Satanic Panic
Monday January 30, 2006
A Jain living in San Francisco describes her spiritual path.
The Vatican defends the Inquisition as "legally justified," even while admitting it was "a mistake," which must qualify for understatement of the century, and a reminder of why it's not a good idea to let religions run things.
The Ukrainian woman known as the "Vampire of Odessa" for luring unsuspecting teens to her home in order to steal their blood has been caught doing it again.
A vitamin company that stepped over the line ion criticising a Sikh senator refuses to apogize.
A reported reminds Oprah of a time when fact-checking was not her strong suit (Satanic Panic)
Comments
As an historian and anthropoligist, I can say that the article on the Inquisition is rubbish. The Vatican isn’t saying that torture was justifed, but that torture was justified within the context of the times. Any historian or anthropologist worth their degree judges a culture through its own beliefs of right and wrong- this is standard practice. This is what the Vatican refers to when it says that torture was legal at the time and therefore justified- justified here meaning “the Inquisitors didn’t feel that they crossed a line” as opposed to “we believe today that what they did was okay.”