Weird developments in anti-Catholicism.

They sound like your Bible Belt anti-Catholics, but they are converts from Islam breaking into Catholic Mass and yelling about "man made religion."

That can't be good.

//Parishioners are terrified after protesters have disturbed Mass at several Catholic churches across the valley.

The group, Koosha Las Vegas, includes members who clearly identify themselves as former Muslims turned Christians. They've been entering churches during services, shouting at Catholics that they need to repent now or else, and filming the acts and posting them on the Internet.

The videos make clear the group has been active on the Las Vegas Strip and several other places around the valley. They're often seen with large signs and megaphones. The difference now is that they're going into houses of worship and causing disturbances. Parishioners tell Action News it's made them fear for their lives.

"Repent, and turn to Jesus Christ. Pope is a Satan! Pope is a Satan! Mary statue is a Satan!" the man behind the camera can be heard shouting.//

Actually, this is interesting.

Watch this video and notice how horrified the camera guy is about "statues" and how he starts yelling about "idols."

Consider how shocked a Muslim who converts to a kind of Calvinism to see "idols" in a church; that has to be a first degree cultural shock for him.

I've always wondered about the connection between Islam and Calvinism, we might be seeing it here.

The ignorant bigotry of the SJW.

Tor.com​ has someone offering tips on writing a fantasy seriesn into historical times.  Tor has been staking a position on the SJW left, I believe, and this bit is very congenial about showing acceptance/respect for, inter alia, Islam or the Bronze Age.

There is is, of course, one time period that doesn't get that treatment:

//"The Catholic Church Makes Torture a Law (1252 CE)

Iron Chair torture chairThe history of Europe in the Middle Ages is constantly influenced by the actions of the Catholic Church, for good and for ill. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Church faced a variety of challenges to its dominance, from internal power struggles over who should be Pope, to external land-grabs by nobility and neighboring kingdoms. The leadership of the Church during this time was often tempestuous, which is as close as I feel like getting to justifying the actions of Pope Innocent IV (I know, right?) in 1252, when he decreed the Ad extirpanda, a papal bull that demanded the torture of heretics.

This Church law stood for over three hundred years and allowed for the torture of thousands, if not millions, of people. One of devices used for confessional torture was the “Iron Chair,” a chair covered in small spikes that a person was then pushed into by a series of straps. (Pictured here.) If the torturer didn’t like your answer to their question, the straps were tightened, and you were sunk further into the beds of spikes.//

For the claim that "a papal bull demanded the torture of heretics," the author cites Wiki, which advises:

//"The following parameters were placed on the use of torture:[3]

that it did not cause loss of life or limb (citra membri diminutionem et mortis periculum)
that it was used only once
that the Inquisitor deemed the evidence against the accused to be virtually certain."//

In other words, unlike secular law, Ad extirpanda was a radical limitation of torture - in fact, the proof required for the use of torture was higher than what was required in English common law to execute.

That doesn't make torture acceptable, particularly where we have a system of evidence and the ability to compel attendance at trial, but it doesn't justify this kind of ignorant calumny. .

Confederate flags are bigotry and must be banned.

Pictures of the Prophet Muhammad is bigotry and must be banned.

Pictures of the Pope Emeritus in condoms is not bigotry and the New York Times wants you to see it.

Spot the principle?

In case you are confused, the only principle here is that Secular liberals hate you if you are a Catholic, Evangelical or Jewish religious believer.

So did you hear about that ABC comedy inspired by an ex-gay that mocks and trashes gays by stereotyping and ridiculing them?

Probably not, because that would be bigotry.

There would be protests and outrage.

Now, having an ex-Catholic homosexual stereotype and ridicule Catholics is perfectly hunky-dory.

Seems like a strange coincidence...

...three churches in Australia are burned during Easter.

At least it has made secular Australians happy.

Here is how they played up the news:

Melbourne church blaze sites house shameful history of abuse

Neil de Grasse Tyson once again self-reveals as an ignorant bigot.

Celebrity Atheists lack the capacity to restrain themselves for even one day a year.

//“So, you have people who are certain that a man in a robe transforms a cracker into the literal body of Jesus saying that what goes on in Scientology is crazy?” he said// Neil de Grasse Tyson

I am effecting a personal boycott of Tyson's Great Course lectures.