It's probably an attack on your reading group's staunch protestantism to think that the Inquisitors believed the confessions. It says the "faith without question" paradigm could be, *gasp*, harmful and misguided, and that may hit a bit too close to home for them. Easier to write the inquisitors off as blatantly evil cartoons than deeply ignorant men of god. But say they're right, if the Inquisitors didn't believe in the confessions, isn't it safe to assume the whole thing would've started to lapse after a few weeks? "Alright, get on the rack, confess your sins before god lest ye be blah blah blah." "I have nothing to confess, this is all a terri(yawn)ble mistake." "Then with righteous justice I will cast out thine wicked etc, etc with this burning hot yadda yadda." "Oh, no, scream, scream, scream, stop, stop, you've broken me, I will... um, what's it?" "Confess?" "Yeah, that." "Ten Hail Marys, fifty hours community service, and a stoning. Try to avoid heresy in your future endeavors, please go to the office down the hall to fill out all the paperwork. Thank you for choosing Catholicism as your agent of damnation. Next."
It's from a canonical list of Internet abbreviations.
CILYMBF = Can I Lock You In My Basement Forever NTBUSWAB = Not to bring up Star Wars again, but.. DYHATNTMBGA = Did you hear about the new They Might Be Giants album? JEOMK = Just ejaculated on my keyboard
But say they're right, if the Inquisitors didn't believe in the confessions, isn't it safe to assume the whole thing would've started to lapse after a few weeks?
"Alright, get on the rack, confess your sins before god lest ye be blah blah blah."
"I have nothing to confess, this is all a terri(yawn)ble mistake."
"Then with righteous justice I will cast out thine wicked etc, etc with this burning hot yadda yadda."
"Oh, no, scream, scream, scream, stop, stop, you've broken me, I will... um, what's it?"
"Confess?"
"Yeah, that."
"Ten Hail Marys, fifty hours community service, and a stoning. Try to avoid heresy in your future endeavors, please go to the office down the hall to fill out all the paperwork. Thank you for choosing Catholicism as your agent of damnation. Next."
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And also.. zounds! Why didn't I think to invite /you/ to the group, it would have been so brilliant.
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CILYMBF = Can I Lock You In My Basement Forever
NTBUSWAB = Not to bring up Star Wars again, but..
DYHATNTMBGA = Did you hear about the new They Might Be Giants album?
JEOMK = Just ejaculated on my keyboard
&c
Useful phrases like that!
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