Torture to change ideas?

[Jargo The Axe]

through history people have tortured other people for their views. and i menalike slicing them into potato chips or slowly tearing them apart. why? i mean why does someone care so much?

[vtmarik]

Because we're all barbaric and sick to a certain degree. Do a google search for "Spanish Inquisition Torture Devices*

[Jargo The Axe]

theh ok i see your point but i dont think it really works anyway....

[FRSmk3]

In the renaissance time period, the church's view of the universe had to be absolutely perfect to keep their image. When people started suggesting that the universe was geocentric, and that the stuff in space (the heavens, then) was actually matter, they had to get rid of them to keep people from doubting those certain things they taught, as that might influence people to doubt more of what the church taught.

[vtmarik]

theh ok i see your point but i dont think it really works anyway....

It doesn't. It never works. Eventually the person either goes numb, dies, or just starts telling you whatever you want to hear just so the pain will stop.

[Scarus]

I don't know. Kind of reminds me of marriage. Maybe torturing outsiders just sort of evolved from people's family relationships.....

[Jargo The Axe]

good job FRS smack on Christianity