Jay Ambrose’s assault on reason and freedom in his Feb. 9 column, “Obama’s health care bill continues assault on faith,” is embarrassing.
Contrary to his conservative view of the world, we are getting much better. It appears that Ambrose would prefer that we go back to the Inquisition, the fight against “heretics” by several institutions within the justice system of the Roman Catholic Church.
It started in the 12th century with the emphasis on torture. Imprisonment already existed and punishment by burning death followed. The Catholic Church suppressed non-believers and many blossoming religious groups.
Today most people have very little knowledge of how life was in Europe under the threat of the terrifying Catholic Inquisition or assault on anyone who did not follow the Pope’s rule. Individual thought or religious practice was not allowed. It lasted for centuries.