I kill a lot of time on Wikipedia. Ancient and Medieval history is usually my thing. I just love how one one quick search can just spider into a multi-hour smorgasborg of topics.

I was reading about the Catholic church’s Medieval inquisitions a few days ago and found myself kind of slack-jawed at the correlations between the process back then and what is happening now.

According to the wiki entry:
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Recently, I read about a Santa Fe, NM. cathedral’s Ash Wednesday mass being disrupted, mid-way by loudly blaring sexually explicit profanity coming from CD players surreptiously hidden under the pews. Horrified parishioners evacuated and in came the over-reactive police sent in the bomb squad. Hilarity. By far, it is the coolest idea of the week. Why don’t more people do this?

“The CD players, duct-taped to the bottoms of the pews, were set to turn on in the middle of noon Mass on Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.”

“The recordings, made on store-bought blank discs, featured people using foul language and “pornographic messages,” Johnson said. He would not elaborate because of the ongoing investigation.”

“Church staff members took the CD players to the basement and called police, who sent the bomb squad, Johnson said.”
“The bomb squad blew up two players outside and kept the third one to test for fingerprints or DNA and trace its components, he said.”

The fact that police feel the need to detonate everything is a bit absurd and considering the cost of doing this, really questionable. Those assholes just can’t take a joke, I guess.