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Originally Posted by Regis Alexandrus
Water boarding is a lullabye compared to what they do to others.,These cowardly terrorists cannot heed Galations 6:7-8 "Be not deceived for God is not mocked and what a man soweth, that he must reapeth." They cry abiut getting their feelings hurt, but they delight in torturing Christian women and children as though it is a sport. Keep up the torture and they might accept Christ after they feel what they do to others.
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Typical papist - torture people into spiritual submission. What was it one of your cronies said, Better to compel them to Christ through torture than to give them freedom of conscience? Oh yes, I do remember now. It was
St. Augustine who argued for toruture:
But we have shown that Paul was compelled by Christ; therefore the Church, in trying to compel the Donatists, is following the example of her Lord . . .. Wherefore, if the power [of the sword] which the Church has received by divine appointment in its due season, through the religious character and faith of Kings, be the instrument by which those who are found in the highways and hedges--that is, in heresies and schisms--are compelled to come in, then let them not find fault because they are compelled.
As Augustine saw it, his cult should have distinguished between people who are important, and people who should be treated worse than animals. How conveniently he called those people who regularly paid their dues "the righteous who thirsteth for God." They don't need torture because "there is no need of the terror of hell, to say nothing of temporal punishments or imperial laws," but those who were not paying members of his cult, "must first be recalled to their Lord by the stripes of temporal scourging, like evil slaves, and in some degree like good-for-nothing fugitives."
So much for your
Just War doctrine (CCC 2309).