The Work of the Devil

[thejoydecoy]

"Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world. There were no female Orthodox rabbis, Catholic priests, nor Islamic clerics. The once hallowed act of Hieros Gamos--the natural sexual union between man and woman through which each became spiritually whole--had been recast as a

Comments

[franeh]

...and we all know who rapes and kills so many of them...
who is so obsessed with sex and hence inherently evil...

[thejoydecoy]

I take it you aren't familiar with Malleus Maleficarum.

[franeh]

nope!

[thejoydecoy]

Ah...yeah, that paragraph describes the beginning of the witch-hunts that killed approximately 5 million women.

...fucking Catholics.

Women are still the devil though.

[rx_patient]

I was made to read some of this for a first year seminar class I took called The Monsterous Imagination. Good stuff. I prefered studying Pliny, but the witch history lesson was fun times too. Those bastardos who didn't like that the people were 'wising up' to the fact that witches weren't real went all apeshit and came to America and brought the ideals of witch hunting there.. and of course [the SHEEP] believed them. Mainly the whole 'witch' thing was to rid the world of another religion (obviously paganism) that might be competition, and gain more followers.. once you've killed a woman because she seemed like an evil potion brewer, it's pretty hard to not stick by the religion that told you to do so.. but that was a pretty obvious comment *lol*