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#heretics
The motto of one of the Inquisitors of The Church was: "*We would gladly burn a hundred, if just one of them is guilty*". Sounds familiar?
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Feb 11, 2024
Feb 11, 2024 at 4:06 AM UTC
*** The Motto
blessed are the fools who call themselves fools for others will call them wise blessed are those who cry out to the world with stammering tongues crouching aching and sweating over endless lines of gibberish that fall like drum beats from the tips of their frantic pens for they will be called Earnest blessed are the ones who suffer withdrawals dope-sick shaking and sweating desperate for a drink or a fix for I will make them High indeed! blessed are the ****** “deviants” cast away by the “holy” as unclean for they know that no man or woman may call unclean anything that God has declared clean Blessed are those who shake their fists in rage at the heavens, cursing them for they will dance in the pouring rain
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Jun 30, 2019
Jun 30, 2019 at 1:40 AM UTC
Sermon from Under the Earth
They attacked her in mid exploration Cutting away her golden thoughts As they cut away her flesh, destroying A mind that they couldn’t destroy in Debate, a sparkling old woman Whose thoughts were spun from steel. The screaming mob desecrated her tiny form Dragging it into the dust, through the ******* And **** Tearing off her clothes The Parabalani exposed her to celestial winds crossing The arora, rubbing Spoilt Alexandrian soil into her unexplored ******   She did not die as a philosopher, calculating and Learning, but, torn apart, the old woman Screamed out for her father, Terrified, in sacrificial pain so much worse Than beheadings and crucifixion. Her modesty, Kept for 60 years, mutilated by a 1000 killers in a single Minute. Her head bounced in the forum, Her arms thrown to the 4 corners, Her soul stamped into the gutter, As the new religion cried out for tolerance. In a morning thinking became forbidden Books burnt, laughs ignored and fires built for heretics.
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Aug 5, 2017
Aug 5, 2017 at 6:13 PM UTC
HYPATIA
A hundred and fifty years after Darwin's dangerous idea The flaws are showing If you look closely You can see the storyteller's gathering
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 2:42 AM UTC
Dangerous Ideas