If Sarah Palin were in charge, I hear, our enemies
Baptism
Confirmation
Eucharist
Marriage (Shotgun Included)
Extreme Unction
would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.Just a few random thoughts on the combination of torture with the Sacraments:
Baptism
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| Ice baptism at Epiphany, apparently a problem. |
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| Emperor Charlemagne helping out with the forced baptism of Arian heretic Saxons. From François Guizot, L'histoire de France depuis les temps le plus reculés, 1870-75. |
Confirmation
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| Via PoliticusUSA. |
Eucharist
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| Via SlopPress. |
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| Sandro Botticelli, The last communion of St. Jerome (1494-95, with a subject probably influenced by the preaching of Savonarola), detail, via Vultus. |
Marriage (Shotgun Included)
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| Via US4Palin. |
Extreme Unction
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| Via Liberal Effects. |
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| John the Apostle being boiled in oil (miraculously unharmed), from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). |
