You are the most obnoxious conservative catholic on this Forum.

I'm an atheist, but I have a certain appreciation for the achievements of the inquisition.

Wait Invictus, you consider yourself to be conservative?

@Dirge; I am pro-Inquisition too.

Lol... Sbyvl... you thought Invictus *wasn't* conservative? Did you think Conservative Man wasn't conservative? My goodness man, is that thing between your ears working?

I'm half a conservative catholic ... The conservative half.

I'm actually surprised more Catholics aren't conservative with the pro life issue being so important to both.

"Wait Invictus, you consider yourself to be conservative?"

Not if conservative means being a person like you who thinks there are only twelve conservatives in the House, thinks that the global flood in Genesis was a literal event, thinks that Vladimir Putin is a liberal, and thinks free trade is a socialist plot to impose world government. Those things are just ridiculous.

If it means believing in limited government and individual liberty, then yes.

How old are you, Sbyvl36? Roughly.

Judging by his forum posts, Sbyvl is 140 years old.

" I am pro-Inquisition too."

Missed this till now. Wow.

How can you reconcile the sorts of political beliefs you have about liberty and freedom with an institution that ran roughshod over individual rights and was unquestionably tyrannical? You're really telling me you support burning Crypto-Jews?

I've actually read into the Inquisition quite a bit a few years ago. It's far from the Black Legend of popular imagination, and a lot of the time people got off with a few Hail Marys or other minor penance. But it's still a horrible, illiberal institution that is something no person with any knowledge of it can support. Even the Catholic Church itself has totally turned its back on the practices of that era. There is no reason to support it unless you're either a complete ignorant idiot or complete reactionary.

I'm not clear whether Sbyvl means a Catholic who is politically conservative, or a Catholic who is in the conservative wing of the church. If he means the latter, I doubt you're anywhere close to that, Invictus, at least based on what you've said in the past.

I won't bore you with specifics of my beliefs, but I definitely am in the traditionalist camp. I'm something of a hypocrite since I love contraceptives and use them despite not being married, amoung other sins, but I'm no more of a lib in my faith than in my politics.

At any rate, I don't think Sbvl36 can even make the distinction.

Svybl: Help help, I'm being repressed