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Catholic iconography is mostly propaganda used to justify torture

"The impact of judicial torture on European culture wen...
Harry Hand
  06/27/26
yeah catholicism is shitty and oppressive and i disavow hear...
getulio
  06/27/26
Frieren was right about demons
sup killa
  06/27/26


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Date: June 27th, 2026 12:58 PM
Author: Harry Hand

"The impact of judicial torture on European culture went far beyond the dungeon, coinciding with a subtle shift in theological emphasis from the life of Jesus to the death of the Christ-a change reflected in artistic representations, both painting and sculpture, of his body being scourged, tortured, and crucified. From limited details of Christ's agonies in the Gospels, medieval artists, in the words of one scholar, "approximated these grisly violations with the unerring eye of a forensic pathologist," creating an image of the pain inflicted on his battered body that mimed, and may have legitimated, the increasingly gruesome legal spectacle of torture and public execution."

-- Alfred McCoy, A Question of Torture (2006)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877794&forum_id=2#49965462)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:00 PM
Author: getulio

yeah catholicism is shitty and oppressive and i disavow heartily

i've seen an instance or two where the demon-afflicted pointed the beset to catholicism, probably to add in centuries of nonsensical dogma and unwritten or uncommon laws to further torment the victim

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877794&forum_id=2#49965465)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: sup killa (πŸΎπŸ‘£)

Frieren was right about demons

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877794&forum_id=2#49965471)