| 4/23/2008 1:11:02 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | 
jewelz5
Monteagle, TN
age: 54
| Devil Woman – used and abused
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature ... The men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly ...God gave them over to a reprobate mind." – Romans 1. 26,28
"Ignorant and clumsy physicians blame all sicknesses which they are unable to cure or which they have treated wrongly, on witchery." – Johan Weyer (1515-1588)
For many centuries the henchmen of Christianity, often in a psychotic denial of their own sexuality, turned their pent up frustration into brutal attacks upon women. For them, Satan appeared in the guise of a beautiful woman, stirring up thoughts that distracted men from God. Or else, women were the daughters of Eve, disobedient and weak-willed, corrupting male morals by their lascivious nature.
Male responses were sometimes private acts of cruelty, meted either upon the temptress, innocent third-parties, or even upon themselves. But more tragic still was the madness which became a collective act of vengeance, as in the 16th and 17th century witch-hunts, when frustrated sadists in clerical garb waged a campaign of terror against an imaginary malevolence.
In the dysfunctional Christian mind the nightscape had become populated with an odd assortment of demonic creatures, succubus, incubus, and not least, naked women on broomsticks – a tormenting fetish, if ever there was one.
Witch hunts provided employment for witch hunters and necessarily, the witch pricker. It seems the devil's mark was to be found secreted about the body. The genitalia – of course! – were subject to painstaking inspection. Warts, moles, liver spots, or any other blemish could all be indicative of demonic liaisons. An extra teat or nipple (by which the witch supposedly suckled her familiars with human blood) was proof positive. Yet extra nipples appear naturally in a small percentage of the population. Tough luck.
The most bizarre sexual crime that a witch could be accused of was "penis thievery":
"And what, then, is to be thought of those witches who in this way sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many and is a matter of common report? It is to be said that it is all done by devil's work and illusion ..." – Kramer, Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum (2.1.7) 1486
In the pandemic, whole populations were whipped into hysteria and recrimination, and thousands of hapless victims were hanged or roasted in public spectacles. This, at a time when the cult of Mary's "virgin purity" was at its height and an unnatural "abstinence" was urged upon the young.
In this frigid world, in which sex was no better than a necessary evil, even masturbation was said to lead to insanity. True intimacy, in both adult sexual relationships and in physical affection between parent and child, was lost.
| | 4/23/2008 1:15:01 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | |
jewelz5
Monteagle, TN
age: 54
| Redemption of 'fallen women'
During the 19th century, in Ireland and elsewhere, the Church established a network of asylums for women and girls who had offended its strict moral code or were deemed to be in danger of carnal sin. They entered against their will and could not easily leave.
These institutions were not refuges but workhouses where the "Magdalenes" – so-called from Mary Magdalene, the prostitute follower of Jesus – were set to work "scrubbing away their sins" by scrubbing dirty laundry.
The Church made profits but the women went unpaid. Brutalised and abused by sadistic nuns "Sisters of Mercy", broken in spirit and isolated from the world, many of the women remained in the institutions until they died.
In Ireland alone more than thirty thousand victims were incarcerated before the closure of the last "laundry" in 1996.
| | 4/23/2008 12:57:46 PM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| It is difficult to ignore history, but a true believer manages not only to ignore the evil that is part of their history, they rationalize that such is not in them if given the chance, dispite the evidence to the contrary.
| | 4/23/2008 9:55:41 PM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | justme86
Waco, TX
age: 22
| Its called propaganda.
I've read some of these threads that jewelz has posted and they seem to be the same, they all focus on the bad things of Christianity. It easy to see that jewelz is against Christianity. Jewelz is trying to associate all these archaic negatives with modern Christianity. If you want an honest discussion you should look at both sides of the picture before posting anti-Christianity propaganda.
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| | 4/24/2008 8:24:15 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| "We desire that the church shall not be judged by its present promises, but by its past
performance. We wish to show what it was in the evil days of its supremacy, when opportunity
matched inclination, and it acted according to the laws of its nature, unchecked by science,
free thought and humanity".G.W. Foote and J.M. Wheeler
"The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense."-- Thomas Paine
"What I got in Sunday School was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full
of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous... The act of worship, as
carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves
grovelling before a Being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected."-H. L. Mencken
| | 4/24/2008 8:38:58 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | justme86
Waco, TX
age: 22
| Ok and what does that have to do with anything in this thread or the similar posts in this forum? Nothing...
| | 4/24/2008 9:35:25 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"--- John Adams,
| | 4/24/2008 9:40:21 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | justme86
Waco, TX
age: 22
| No words of your own?
| | 4/24/2008 10:03:15 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | |
jewelz5
Monteagle, TN
age: 54
| Witches and Warlocks
"A Christian ought always to think humbly of himself, and be full of self-abasing reflection. By loathing of himself continually, and being very sensible of what are his own loathsome circumstances, a Christian does what is very pleasing to Heaven." – Cotton Mather, Diary (Hulse, p184)
Witchcraft panic reached its climax in Salem in the summer of 1692. 156 people from twenty four villages were accused before special courts. Nineteen victims were hanged and one crushed to death for refusing to confess to the practice of witchcraft.
| | 4/24/2008 10:17:25 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | justme86
Waco, TX
age: 22
| You forgot the burnings at the stake.
| | 4/24/2008 11:48:08 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| "Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears."-- Karen Armstrong,
The mindless cackle of apologists defending their thugs, promoters of the most perverted
ideologies, may drown out rational speach, but neither their persistent nonsensical
blathering nor the basic ignorance of their beliefs will endure. In time, as truth and how
to think is slowly taught to the superstitious hoarde, the filthy weight of organized
religions will be thrown off. It is a slow process, hendered by the retarding religious
minds, but the movement away from the fundamentalist's views can be seen in more civilized
countries than the usa where superstition is still promoted as normal and desirable by
powerful political forces. And it is only the thin protection of law that keeps those with
perverted religious minds from burning, literally, unbelievers.
| | 4/25/2008 4:36:03 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | 
fisherman383
Aberdeen, WA
age: 45
| Skunkbreath and Jewels
You 2 are a piece of work.. A man that knows a little about alot of things,
doesnt know alot about anything..
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| | 4/25/2008 8:56:14 AM | Devil Woman – used and abused | | skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| "The most serious doubt that has been thrown upon the authenticity of the miracles is
that most of the witnesses in regard to them were fishermen."-Arthur Brinstead
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