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Girona Cathedral, Jews, & the Spanish Inquisition http://www.x-robot.com/
Cathedrals abound in Europe, but none quite like the one in Girona, Spain. (More) http://www.x-robot.com/
Cathedrals abound in Europe, but none quite like the one in Girona, Spain. After meeting my friend and 3d art mentor Alain in town, I went there to kill time by taking some garden variety photos. But, it surprised me.
Tonight, while contemplating the Cathedral's former role in the Spanish Inquisition and its persecution of Jews, I ran across this nice Da Vinci Code-like bit of prose...
Discovering a Forgotten Past In Girona, Spain
by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
http://www.travel-watch.com/girona.htm
"...typical scenes of modern city life all stop flat at the River Onyar, a copper-colored band in the hazy morning light. On the other side, the old town of Girona rises from the hillside - a jumble of multi-hued structures, sloping tiled roofs, Romanesque towers, and Gothic spires. The Carrer de la Forca, once part of the ancient Roman route that crossed the Iberian peninsula, begins just beyond the footbridge. It is a narrow and steep cobblestone road leading to even narrower lanes that climb to even steeper heights only to disappear into sudden cul de sacs. Stone buildings, huddled one against the other, hover over the byways. Some are linked to facing buildings, making of the street below a dim and silent tunnel.
"Even by such standards, the Carrer de Sant Llorenc is more a dark alley than a street. Turned into a stairway to ease the pedestrian climb, it levels off at the doorway of a massive building. But beyond the door, the gloom is suddenly lifted as one steps into an airy alcove leading onto a bright, sun-splashed patio. There, flowered vines are cascading down from surrounding balconies. Arched recesses break the stone walls, and a profusion of plants line the gleaming granite floor. It is paved with slabs the color of earth except for the center where white, beige and brown blocks are formed into an enormous Star of David.
"This is the heart of the Call, the legendary medieval Jewish community of Girona where the Kabbalah was first written down. For nearly 500 years, it lay buried, literally sealed off, as houses and streets were, in successive layers, built over it. Now in an ambitious restoration project, Gironans are digging down through levels of construction and back through centuries to unearth a part of Jewish and Catalan history that began at the start of the ninth century, ended at the close of the fifteenth, and then slowly faded from public memory until it was completely forgotten."
Now, I want to go back and search for the Kabbalah! (Less)
Bad Religion - Modern Man lyrics (words and music by Greg Graffin)
'The human species can change its own nature. What will it (More) (words and music by Greg Graffin)
'The human species can change its own nature. What will it choose?(E.O. Wilson, biologist;1978)
In biology, evolution is a change in the inherited traits of a population from one generation to the next. This process causes populations of organisms to change over time. Inherited traits are the expression of genes that are passed on to offspring during reproduction. Mutations in genes can produce new or altered traits, resulting in the appearance of heritable differences between organisms. Such new traits also come from the transfer of genes between populations, as in migration, or between species, in horizontal gene transfer. Evolution occurs when these heritable differences become more common or rare in a population, either non-randomly through natural selection or randomly through genetic drift.
Some parts by G. Graffin from the book 'is belief in God, good, bad or irrelevant?
'Human knowledge is created by a collective of workers in all sorts of fields. Neurobiology is one of the newer fields of inquiry. When we add the data to the wealth of data from psychology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, medicine, etc. we are one step closer to answering the mystery of human life.'
Greg Graffin; 'The intolerance of the Inquisition is, I believe, a natural outcome of traditional theology. History is the result of causes. Although we probably can't always figure out exactly what caused certain things to happen in history, we can examine some of the dominating factors'
'Did you know that my great grand-father, E.M. Zerr, wrote a multi-volume Bible commentary in the 1930s that is still in use in rural areas of the Midwest in a sect called Church of Christ?'
'It seems that most people want to believe there is more meaning in the universe than actually exists. There is strong emotional drive to find meaning, wich may be "hard-wired" in our brains or a cultural universal found in all human societies perhaps. The drive leads many people to accept religion readily because theologies reassure us that indeed there is an ultimate meaning and an ultimate purpose to human life'.
'My religion, wich is of course as yet undefined and totally unpopular, accepts morality as a set of prescribed rules that came not from an supernatural being and his mysterious wisdom, but rather came from a recognition of human behavior. We humans can recognize our own behavior and we can codify it. We are smart beings who can characterize good and bad behavior and relate it to how it makes us feel(good or bad).'
'The facts of naturalism are too powerful for people to ignore, but they haven't had time, or haven't had the need to think deeply about how that conflicts with the tenets and implications of traditional theology'
Greg Graffin; 'Many christian beliefs don't "work" at all. I saw a lecture last week by a very good paleontologist from an Ivy League university. I admire his bravery, although when someone is brave for a lost cause, all I can admire is the bravery. He started outright that he is a theist and believes all of evolution is driven by "God's love." At the end of the lecture I promptly said, in front of the entire audience, "That explanation of evolution doesn't acknowledge all the data. It ignores all the suffering from biological agents: predation, infection, starvation, psychological maladies of humans, etc. How, by any stretch of the imagination, can you convince us that this has anything to do with 'love'?" Of course his answer, basically, was, "The ways of God are mysterious and human suffering is a 'big' question." (Is belief in God, good, bad or irrelevant) (Less)
Modern Inquisition 2 Anita - Electro Torture Scene.avi 
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Inquisition 1 images 
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Inquisition 1 Trailer 2009-07-22 - extension: zip - size: 829 KB
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Inquisition 2 004 2009-07-22 - extension: zip - parts: 4 - size: 9 MB
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