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.