tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post5524749638777765657..comments2023-04-22T12:32:24.799-07:00Comments on The House of Substance: Endorsement DepartmentSubstance McGravitashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-12066639477284759032010-08-27T22:53:47.067-07:002010-08-27T22:53:47.067-07:00nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Torguemada...<i>nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition</i><br /><br />Torguemada: Good afternoon, I have an appointment to see the doctor.xenideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527515587503087809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-63422966646635694852010-08-27T13:37:48.211-07:002010-08-27T13:37:48.211-07:00Auto-de-fe? What's an auto-de-fe?
It's wha...Auto-de-fe? What's an auto-de-fe?<br />It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway.Brandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484284471046027179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-12980346272380454562010-08-26T18:52:18.507-07:002010-08-26T18:52:18.507-07:00If the choice is between Ayn Rand and “Not as Bad ...<i>If the choice is between Ayn Rand and “Not as Bad as Auschwitz,”</i><br /><br />Guess what? It isn't. YOU'RE WELCOME. <br /><br />Also, the only reason Randians have never had an Inquisition is they've never had any power. They've certainly got the requisite concern for ideological purity.tigrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00685093476177441655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-19383248388778043282010-08-26T18:11:26.051-07:002010-08-26T18:11:26.051-07:00nobody expects the Spanish Inquision.nobody expects the Spanish Inquision.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-43285397824029984082010-08-26T18:05:25.865-07:002010-08-26T18:05:25.865-07:00I just think he has no idea what he's talking ...I just think he has no idea what he's talking about, no idea how Church and state in pre-19th-century Spain were organized and operated.<br /><br />I looked over his earlier response to Steorts. He reminds me of Dostoevsky pushing a tighter embrace of faith as a way to save society from scary new ideas. Which amuses me, because Steorts in his Rand essay says her fiction reminds him of Dostoevsky and his wooden characters spouting ideas. It's Dostoevskys (-skies?) all the way down, baby.J—https://www.blogger.com/profile/18170012454374960050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-3225389217498909282010-08-26T17:53:30.566-07:002010-08-26T17:53:30.566-07:00I hope that J-- isn't impugning Reinsch's ...I hope that J-- isn't impugning Reinsch's honesty, or accusing him of trying to smuggle in his most contentious offense against history by using weasel words that make it look less like an outright assertion.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-90406477354655364212010-08-26T17:21:22.140-07:002010-08-26T17:21:22.140-07:00Dissidents to what regime? The Inquisition in Spa...Dissidents to what regime? The Inquisition in Spain was founded to deal with heresy. Over time it expanded its jurisdiction into areas that were not strictly or formally heretical—blasphemy and positions on certain sex acts, for example—but this expansion always meant pushing in on other courts, civil and ecclesiastical, which pushed back.<br /><br />I do like the "No discussion …is complete without the Spanish Inquisition" line. I'll have to remember to use it in the future.J—https://www.blogger.com/profile/18170012454374960050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-54552663553146191792010-08-26T17:00:49.684-07:002010-08-26T17:00:49.684-07:00Christians all over the world know that there is o...Christians all over the world know that there is one way to redemption: OOPS.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-12851310774842993492010-08-26T16:57:23.622-07:002010-08-26T16:57:23.622-07:00getting involved in state judicial proceedings whe...<i>getting involved in state judicial proceedings whereby dissidents to the regime were marked for punishment and some for execution.</i><br /><br />So the Inquisition was a central-government initiative and the only fault of the church was its failure to keep itself uninvolved. Nothing tendentious about that!Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.com