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   From: calvinramsey@live.com   
      
   David Dalton  wrote:   
   > For most past figures the low years have lasted   
   > seven years but I have gone over 16.55 years so   
   > far, so long I think since my suffering has been   
   > reduced by the meds.   
   >   
   > But anyway, I propose a partnership between myself   
   > and any interested atheists.   
   >   
      
   The Medieval Inquisition is a series of Inquisitions (Roman Catholic   
   Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184,   
   including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184-1230s) and later the Papal   
   Inquisition (1230s). It was in response to large popular movements   
   throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in   
   particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern   
   Italy. These were the first inquisition movements of many that would   
   follow.   
      
   Torture was used after 1252. On May 15, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal   
   bull entitled Ad exstirpanda, which authorized the use of torture by   
   inquisitors. The Inquisitors were forbidden to use methods that resulted   
   in bloodshed, mutilation or death. One of the more common forms of   
   medieval inquisition torture was known as strappado. The hands were   
   bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this   
   way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms. Weights could be   
   added to the legs dislocating those joints as well.   
      
   The organization is still active today under the name of the   
   Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Prior to becoming Pope   
   Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger was the head of the congregation.   
      
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