What is your favorite Christian torture device? Pick one from a list!!?

Question

The pear: Hinging on your gender, the pear was either placed in your anus or your vagina in its thin form and then cranked to open up and blossom into a rather uncomfortable position.

Cleansing the Soul: In many Catholic countries, the clergy believed that the corrupted soul of a damned person could be cleansed if they were forced to consume boiling water, burning coals, or both.

Burning at the Stake: A favorite execution for those accused of witchcaft. Clergy believed that the burning of a witch permanently removed her evil spirits from the physical world, thus eliminating the possibility of any further contamination of innocent souls.

Heretic's Fork: The four sharp points snugly nestled under the chin and sternum were designed to allow the victim just enough range of motion with his mouth to murmer a confession.

The Rack: It does exactly what it looks like it does: the rack pulls your body from end to end until your limbs are slowly plucked from their joints.

Answer 1

Well, being that I had an ancestor die this way, I think I'm going to say burning at the stake, but most witches were hung, not burned.

Answer 2

The pyramid thing could cripple someone really quickly - usually not permanently but it was VERY painful (they all were). As someone with a spinal cord injury - I'll go with that one.





Jackie - you're wrong - the Protestants also used those methods and invented a few new ones. It wasn't just the Catholics who tortured heretics, suspected witches and Christians of other denominations. There was even running battles between some towns between different denominations in the colonies.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the use of any idol or image in worship, including the cross. That dates all the way back to the 2nd commandment of the 10 commandments. They also know that the cross had pre-Christian ties to it that dated back to the worship of the God Tammuz. The original Greek word that is often translated as cross actually means, "tree, stake, or pole." It never referred to two pieces of wood placed together in any form. Wood was scarce in bible times and would not have been wasted on anyone considered a criminal.

Answer 4

I'm suprised you have gone back so far in history

These claims cover the period from the early 1940s to the early 1970s. Nazareth House has been a retirement village since the mid-1980s. Most of the complainants have been offered cash to settle out of court.



A guinea pig had been put down one girl’s pants; the girl was forced to leave it there while it bit and scratched her genitalia for several minutes.



The claiment said that on one occasion, she had been hung naked by her wrists for several hours. She and other girls were held in a small dark cell for two or more days without food or toilet facilities.



In a statement of claim, another woman said she had suffered systematic beatings and assaults of various kinds by nuns. The woman claimed she had her face rubbed in a urine-soaked sheet until her nose bled, had been made to kiss dead bodies, and been fed food infested with bugs.

She said that once when she had been forced to eat food which was so bad that she vomited, she was forced to eat her vomit.



Another woman claimed she had been forced to eat the faeces of one of the nuns who was sexually assaulting girls.



The Chancellor of the Brisbane Archdiocese, James Spence, said responsibility for the children rested with the Sisters of Nazareth. “The archdiocese had no involvement in the day-to-day running of the orphanage,” Father Spence said.

Answer 5

Cliff Richard.

Answer 6

Waterboarding

Answer 7

Good ol burning at the stake! Although, I'm not completely sure that one classifies as a "torture device".

Answer 8

The Rack!

Answer 9

Closer to home.. wading through the plethora of christian questions designed to try to "win us over to christ" on here.. that's more torturous than anything you've listed.

Answer 10

Just sitting though a church service is bad enough.



Mind numbing and excruciating.

Answer 11

Just ship them off to Iran; the possibilities are endless there.

Answer 12

This is why I cannot believe that Catholics can look at the blatant truth and say that "Holy Mother Church" is the ONE true and infallible one! It was a black black time in the world's history, and when the world threw off the rule of Roman Popery- our modern world of today's west was birthed.



THANK GOD.

Answer 13

Christian rock.

Answer 14

None. you obviously raised yourself huh? Come to the "Show Me State" and you'll find out very quickly that you should have listened to your parents.

Answer 15

Indeed, this wins hands down for most disturbing thing I have read today. :(

Answer 16

Do yourself a favour and read about what the communists did (official atheists no denial about that). They killed millions. Or are you not equally outraged by your own monster?