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“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage that a perverse human mind could imagine.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
“The persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents of corruption and incarnations of evil' - seems to be hardwired into Western civilization.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
“...heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
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