After pointing me toward this column, written by someone I'd never heard of named David Yount, the fellow responsible for finding it remarked: "I don't know if there's a single factual statement in that entire thing."
The column is a befogged complaint about an upcoming PBS special called "'Secret Files of the Inquisition," which Yount declares is another misleading piece in a long line of them that take the actions of a well-intentioned bunch of genuine Christians out of context and unfairly paint them as nasty and wrongheaded. Well, he has a point; boys will be boys!
I think my friend is basically right -- read this amusing attempt to pooh-pooh the Inquisition, the ghastly proceedings of which the addled essayist casually likens to modern courtroom trials, and decide for yourself. But Yount's last sentence is possibly an exception: "[M]ost Christians remain immune to the revisionists." Yes, once inoculated with faith, lots of Christians become immune to a host of things: healthy skepticism, reasoning, the physical and life sciences, and so on.
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This is my favourite quote from the essay:
I may have mistyped a word or two.
Posted by: pough | April 13, 2007 1:01 PM