History Lessions worth knowing!
Hey guys! I can make coffee! *TWITCH*
Well I have proof now that all that Catholic who-hah about witchs was simply sexual frustration.
In 585 A.D., the Catholics argued that women did not have a mortal soul.
By 1450, the official Catholic dogma was established that witches existed and could fly by night. All physically desirable women were projected by the church as evil sorceresses. The church was losing its power and this was their means to fight the rising rationalism and happiness brought on by the emerging Renaissance.
Inquisitors Jacob Sprenger and Henry Kramer, Dominican brothers and professors of sacred theology at the University of Cologne, armed with their influential book. Malleus Maleficarum ("The Witches' Hammer"), and with Pope Innocent VII's infamous Bull of 1484, extracted from women "confessions" they wanted with horrible tortures. They burned to death over 30,000 "witches" charged with having sex with the Devil, whom the Church insisted had a brutal penis covered with fish scales.
Huh. Fish Scales! When I go to hell (I mean come on, I'm female, I enjoy sex, and see my partner as MY equal. In olden time Christian philosophy, I am so Damned), I plan to ask him about that.
My Mennonite Bretheren (and most of Christiandom)would shit their pants if they knew this about their anti-catholic benefactor:
Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546) battled against Catholic asceticism in advocating the enjoyment of every pleasure that was not sinful. Luther was lusty and vulgar in the "eat, drink and be merry" style. He claimed to have broken wind in the Devil's face and to have told him to "lick his ass". He fought Rome and claimed that celibacy was invented by the Devil and that priests could marry. He asserted marriage was not a sacrament at all, but a civil matter. In 1532, he held that Christ probably committed adultery with Mary Magdalene and other women so as to fully experience the nature of man. Luther asserted that sexual impulses were both natural and irrepressible. He broke from Rome and married. Luther's reformation rapidly spread across Northern Europe.
I you would like to read the rest of "The history of Love and Sex", check out http://www.neo-tech.com/history/