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The Vatican’s broken wheel

The men, it seems, are the ones whose souls end up being pelted with fire and brimstone, while the women’s souls are more likely to be broken on a wheel. -timesonline.co.uk

Link to article here.

I must admit that until I did some research, I wasn’t sure what broken on a wheel made reference to. Courtesy of Wikipedia and several other sites, now I do. If you really want to know how out of touch the Roman Catholic Church is on the matter of women, check this out:

http://www.medievality.com/the-wheel.html

How utterly delightful that the Vatican sees fit to condemn women to a special form of punishment.

The victim’s limbs were tied to the spokes and the wheel itself was slowly revolved. Through the openings between the spokes, the torturer usually hit the victim with an iron hammer that could easily break the victim’s bones. -Medieval Times & Castles

I wonder what devilish delights in hell await those priests and their masters who have seen fit to bugger little boys and then cover up the crimes?

Just more reasons for keeping the flock ignorant and uneducated, whether it be Roman Catholicism or Islam, or any other faith.

But then, what could anyone expect from a bunch of men who sit around all day with their robes pulled over their heads, trying to be relevant in the 21st century?

The men, it seems, are the ones whose souls end up being pelted with fire and brimstone, while the women’s souls are more likely to be broken on a wheel. -timesonline.co.uk

Broken on a wheel? WTF?

Even in death, the women don’t get the good stuff going on. Discrimination follows them down, down down through the burning ring of fire into the bowels of hell.*

Link here.

A little from Wikipedia on the breaking wheel.

*With apologies to June Carter and Merle Kilgore.

Michael Phelps is only human, but why some moron in control of a police department would even consider charging him with a crime because of a photo is beyond me. Jesus but some police departments are simply idiotic, being commanded by idiots, and populated by idiots.

Take this, for example: In south Carolina, Leon Lott used swat teams to arrest seven college students and charged them with partying with Phelps.

America is a place where you can destroy millions of lives as a Wall Street executive and still get invited for photo-ops at the White House; a land where the everyman icon – Joe Sixpack – is named for his love of shotgunning two quarts of beer at holiday gatherings; a “shining city on a hill” where presidential candidates’ previous abuse of alcohol and cocaine is portrayed as positive proof of grittiness and character. And yet, somehow, Phelps is the evildoer of the hour because he went to a party and took a hit off someone’s bong. -sfgate.com, David Sirota

Link to an editorial on fake outrage here.

*With apologies to Joseph Conrad.