Street Prophets: Comments Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition!

Brother dirkster... (0 / 0)

I have an ear-to-ear smile right now! It's so nice to know there are kindred spirits out there.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo

by Mahanoy on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 06:51:48 PM PDT

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- So happy to oblige, brother mahanoy! (0 / 0)
  
  And with a little digging, I learned that the Netherlands were not officially Protestant until after the Dutch rebellion in the 1570s! I should have remembered that from quals reading, but I guess my overall sense of Holland as basically Protestant proved a filter stronger than historical facts (until today).
  
  The Wine of Youth ferments this night in the veins of God - Alfred de Musset.
  
  by dirkster42 on Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 07:29:59 PM PDT
  
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