Have the Inquisitions Returned?

   As I sit here munching on black and white sandwich cookies, I am perforce to think about witch hunts and the historic Inquisitional periods of the past. Those periods include the Medieval, Roman, and Spanish Inquisitions because I believe that in some ways we have returned to them without actually proclaiming the Inquisitions restarted. The only difference is that Homo sapiens or human beings no longer burn people at the stake.

    For this reason I am writing my pre-Reformation and a second book on the Reformation to describe why these times we live in are in some ways similar to what occurred in the past. I believe that if we study history and pay attention to the admonitions "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" that perhaps we, as a civilization, can rid our world of this destructive 1984-esque mentality we seemed to have wrapped our nations' and cultures' politics in.

     One hundred years and more into the future historians will look back on this time and scratch their heads and ask what in the Hell we were doing to ourselves. The facts are 1, we don't know, and 2, at the moment, we also don't seem to give a damn about caring.

Martyrs of the Reformation

Back in late 2015 and early 2016 I wrote my history thesis and it was on the Martyrs of the Reformation or how the populace of countries ruled over by the hegemony of the Catholic Church were able to gain a vernacular version of the Christian Bible without being declared guilty of heresy and being burned at the stake.
 There were many martyrs from the late 14th century through the end of the Thirty Years' War. These martyrs included John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Rev. Thomas Cranmer, and so many more.
It was also a period when the Renaissance rode high in European culture, the invention of Gutenberg's  printing press, and a Revolution in thinking. It could be said the pre-Enlightenment coincided with the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Update

It has been nearly a year since my last post and I have been very busy. I have been working hard on my Master's Degree in the Humanities and I'm working on thesis now. I am planning on getting back to my outline and to start writing my first book in the series while I look for work to pay my student loans and to find my own place to live. I also have my youngest daughter's college education to fund.

The United States is very important to me; I love my country and hate to see it being destroyed from within. Life is too precious and our country will never rise again if it falls like the Roman Empire did.

I am writing my Debates of Honor series to remind people of our history; one that is hardly taught in schools anymore. Of course, in today's social and political climate I might get called racist, sexist, or a Nazi. These books are intended to reflect society and people as they were then and not as they are now.

Book One starts with John Blackthorpe and his struggle to come to grips with being his family's patriarch. He also takes on the task of parenting his youngest brother and sister amidst the backdrop of the French and Indian war in the colonies, especially Pennsylvania. He must decide whether to support his cousins in Connecticut and their plans to join the Susquehannah (old spelling) Company and their settlement in the Wyoming Valley or to side with the Penns who are old friends to his family (fictional).

I love my country.

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, I want to say thank you to those brave military Veterans, but also to remind my readers (for those who wondered where the hell I have been) that we did this momentous event in 8 years. We need to go back to the Moon and build a Moon Base before getting lost in space while heading to Mars. If space probes like Voyager 6 or the Cassini Space Probe can go to Mars, then damn it so can Man. Ending Man Space Flights under Obama was a horrible Mistake.