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10. We should be confused

Reply to Pooka Fey (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 07:05 PM

Feb 2015

We are doing many of the same things we condemn in others, it's a confusing world.

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Castrati - another Christian crime no one talks about [View all] Miigwech Feb 2015 OP

i understand how bad this was but we are talking hundreds of years ago samsingh Feb 2015 #1

Not really Miigwech Feb 2015 #9

The KKK considered themselves Christian and justified Lint Head Feb 2015 #39

Yes, and it was Christians by the hundred thousand that marched to free those slaves Telcontar Feb 2015 #72

True. The point is that the KKK and pro slavers were extremists Lint Head Feb 2015 #78

The point should be that there is no implicit morality or goodness associated with Christianity... SidDithers Feb 2015 #104

Do you have that right! Stargazer99 Feb 2015 #108

Yep WhaTHellsgoingonhere Feb 2015 #2

Golly, I sure do feel a lot better about ISIS now! nt Dreamer Tatum Feb 2015 #3

Fox News host: ‘Zero’ People Have Been Killed In The Name Of Any Religion But Islam (VIDEO) Fumesucker Feb 2015 #7

witches were hung to death...but for relations with or worship of satan HereSince1628 Feb 2015 #14

Oh yes - so do I. 840high Feb 2015 #70

Handicappers nightmare - edgineered Feb 2015 #4

Call at the first turn - edgineered Feb 2015 #79

Anne Rice wrote a book about this called Cry to Heaven kimbutgar Feb 2015 #5

this is my favorite book by her and I told her that on facebook when she asked her fans m-lekktor Feb 2015 #15

I love that book, too. djean111 Feb 2015 #46

Add another one Runningdawg Feb 2015 #80

Mine, too. That and the one she wrote about Orleans msanthrope Feb 2015 #87

Great book! LuvNewcastle Feb 2015 #95

Thanks for this new "Two wrongs neutralize the Wrong" argument Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #6

We should be confused Fumesucker Feb 2015 #10

I'm forgetting which secular democracy burned a captured enemy pilot alive in an iron cage last week Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #17

Is that the only thing worth getting outraged about? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #19

No, only CHRISTIANITY is "worth" getting outraged about, didn't you get the memo? whathehell Feb 2015 #31

Evidently I'm confused... Fumesucker Feb 2015 #34

Evidently you are.. whathehell Feb 2015 #38

As has the "Christians are perfect and have always been so" meme Fumesucker Feb 2015 #42

Um, yeah, on FOX NEWS, whathehell Feb 2015 #48

What gets said on Fox gets talked about a lot on DU Fumesucker Feb 2015 #52

Yes, but its memes aren't confused with reality.. whathehell Feb 2015 #56

Then why is it a problem posting this? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #58

I think the better question is whathehell Feb 2015 #67

i feel the same about cat pictures. but others don't. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #68

Um, really not the same thing.. whathehell Feb 2015 #73

um, i didn't say it was 'the same thing'. I said I feel the same ('why bother?') about the cat ND-Dem Feb 2015 #75

Um, you didn't have to.. whathehell Feb 2015 #98

I know plenty of people who take Fox seriously, Fox is a bellwether for a substantial demographic Fumesucker Feb 2015 #92

Sorry, but "taking it seriously" is not the same as conflating it with truth, whathehell Feb 2015 #100

Nice photo. Good of you to post it to me. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #36

Does white phosphorous count? arcane1 Feb 2015 #27

Um, the US is a secular democracy, regardless of what the RW Fundies think.. whathehell Feb 2015 #32

What's this "WE" stuff? I don't believe you are running round castrating people--I know I'm not. MADem Feb 2015 #76

Not everyone in ISIS has done something horrible either Fumesucker Feb 2015 #91

oh ffs, muslims castrated nearly every african male the took in the slave trade AngryAmish Feb 2015 #8

Fox's Bolling: Zero People Have Been Killed In The Name Of Any Religion But Islam Fumesucker Feb 2015 #12

I am a touch lost (and getting drunker by the minute). AngryAmish Feb 2015 #16

Thank you, and yes, slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia until the early 1930's whathehell Feb 2015 #35

There is a lot of slavery in SA today. AngryAmish Feb 2015 #43

LOL Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #49

Figures.. whathehell Feb 2015 #51

So our allies are Muslim slavers. But we're at war with Muslims who aren't slavers and in ND-Dem Feb 2015 #71

ISIS and Boko Haram are indeed slavers mwrguy Feb 2015 #81

oh, i thought we were at war with al-qaeda. or the taliban. it's hard to keep up. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #82

Daesh have taken plenty of slaves. AngryAmish Feb 2015 #93

Your spot on. outside Feb 2015 #45

got a link for that? ND-Dem Feb 2015 #69

just google it AngryAmish Feb 2015 #94

Castrati were highly sought after as Lovers and Courtesans of both sexes, and richly compensated Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #11

Anyone who wants to be... Fumesucker Feb 2015 #13

Tell me after you've read Anne Rice's book "Cry to Heaven" Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #18

How would that tell me what your opinion is? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #20

My opinion has been formed by historical study of the time period in question Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #21

Rather than being snotty about it you could have answered my question Fumesucker Feb 2015 #22

Do you believe that I owe you something? Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #23

I was interested in your opinion Fumesucker Feb 2015 #29

Yes, you do. Widget2000 Feb 2015 #59

Medieval Church note to self "Leave abandoned boys alone to die with their balls intact" Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #90

Contemporary Church Note to Self: Widget2000 Feb 2015 #113

Only a select few Miigwech Feb 2015 #24

I feel much better about the Islamic State and Female Genital Mutilation now. Good perspective! Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #28

LOL whathehell Feb 2015 #37

What is the point of posting this? hrmjustin Feb 2015 #25

Now there is a freudian slip if I have ever seen one! stevenleser Feb 2015 #26

lol. hrmjustin Feb 2015 #30

It sure gets people riled...and I guess that is the point...? MADem Feb 2015 #77

+1000 smirkymonkey Feb 2015 #115

Michael Jackson was not a castrato Brother Buzz Feb 2015 #33

*snort* Good old Bob!! madinmaryland Feb 2015 #41

A recording made in 1904 by the last living castrato. rug Feb 2015 #40

Yes Miigwech Feb 2015 #50

A haunting voice TuxedoKat Feb 2015 #62

Weird. Really weird. Sounds like a cat yowling. Brigid Feb 2015 #74

This is also due to the church's ingrained dread and loathing for anything female Warpy Feb 2015 #44

Um I'm going to have to call bullshit. Sorry to be not be able to be "nice" about it. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #57

Madrigals were written for countertenors Warpy Feb 2015 #61

And your sources are? Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #84

Pope Pius X - Motu Proprio promulgated on November 22, 1903 Miigwech Feb 2015 #63

OFFS. Using your logic, women in the USA don't have the right to vote. Lets get upset now. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #85

Very well said. greatlaurel Feb 2015 #60

Good post, Warpy. Arugula Latte Feb 2015 #110

Speaking of crime seveneyes Feb 2015 #47

That is bullshit and you know it. dilby Feb 2015 #53

Read the history Miigwech Feb 2015 #54

Castration was taking place in this part of the world before Christianity dilby Feb 2015 #65

And your point? That the Catholic church is not guilty? Miigwech Feb 2015 #66

I really appreciate this post. I didn't know this about the castrati. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #88

They may have sung, just like Christian women probably sang in public. dilby Feb 2015 #99

Keep studying. Women in Rome could exercise power. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #101

These were women married to powerful men. dilby Feb 2015 #103

Power is exercised through one's social status, connections, or by one's capacity for violence Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #106

It was exactly the same for women in the middle ages. dilby Feb 2015 #107

According to Wikipedia: ND-Dem Feb 2015 #83

Mozart cast women in his operas staged in Vienna and other stages all over Europe Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #89

Yes, the Church is all reformed now. yallerdawg Feb 2015 #55

Nope, and trending on Amazon Widget2000 Feb 2015 #64

Oh yeah. Everything's all fixed now that Pope Wonderful is at the helm! Arugula Latte Feb 2015 #111

It's the strangest game.... Glengoolie Feb 2015 #86

or not as wackadoodle/sick/evil as our government droning the heck out of everyone ND-Dem Feb 2015 #105

As a Christian, I formally pledge never o create another Castrati. el_bryanto Feb 2015 #96

That was a problem with Christianity, as extremism is currently a problem with Islam RedCappedBandit Feb 2015 #97

Eunuchs and Castrati created for various service roles are a fairly global and fully interfaith Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #102

+1 for adding something intelligent to this discussion Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #112

First instance I found about these individuals was from Anne Rice's Novel. Xyzse Feb 2015 #109

I guess some Bee Gees and 4 Seasons jokes are not tasteful at this time olddots Feb 2015 #114

"Walk Like A Man"? kwassa Feb 2015 #116