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Tag Archives: catholics
October 27, 1838
On October 27, 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issued his famous ‘Extermination Order”. This was the official order that told all Mormons to leave the state or to be killed. When asked why he was picking on the Mormons… Continue reading
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Tagged anime, catholics, get out getting out, governors, hentai, jews, Lilburn Boggs, Missouri, Mormons, tentacles
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October 8, 1996
On October 8, 1996, Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix. The ‘laying on of hands’ and prayer didn’t work, so Johnny Boy had to rely upon medical science to save his life. Good thing… Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, Christian Scientists, Pope John Paul II, science vs religion
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November 13, 1956
On November 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. They refused to rule on religious segregation as the Baptists were going to sit in the back anyway, while the Catholics would be upfront and the Episcopalians would claim the middle.
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Tagged Baptists, buses, catholics, Episcopalians, segregation, US Supreme Court
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January 30, 1661
On January 30, 1661, England executed Oliver Cromwell, former Lord Protector and Ruler of the Commonwealth of England for regicide. The common people of England didn’t really care that he had Charles I executed on January 30, 1649, twelve years earlier, it was because he had been a Puritan and when he took over the … Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, Charles II, England, King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, protestants, puritans, Puritans suck, regicide
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August 25, 2008
On this date in Twisted-History.com in 2008, Father Antonio Rungi of the Passionists order in the town of Mondragone, Italy proposed on his blog to hold a “Beauty Contests for Nuns” where the nuns would send him photos and people would vote for who was the most lovely. He envisioned that the Sisters would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty Contests, catholics, Italy, nuns
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July 10, 1609
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1609 the Catholic states in Germany created the Catholic League to counteract the Protestant Union, which had been formed in 1608. One important difference between the two separate Leagues was that the Catholic League (the Junior Circuit) allowed a designated hitter, i.e., a priest or saint, to act as … Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, Germany, league action, protestants
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May 23, 1618
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1618, The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window from the upper floors of the Hradcany Castle in Prague by a mob of Protestants. They fell 70 feet to the ground and surprisingly survived. This was known as the Second Defenestration … Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, defenestration, Prague, protestants, Reformation, religion, war
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December 8, 1854
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. This theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived. It was later learned from her diary, “The Life and Times of a Good Girl Born to be Better”, … Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, mythology, religion, the pope, Virgin Mary, women
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July 30, 1419
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1419, Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of the executed dictionary reformer, Jan Hus, stormed into Prague and threw all seven members of the Catholic Dictionary Council out the window of the Council House, killing most from the fall, with the rest being torn apart by the waiting crowd below. Jan Hus … Continue reading
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Tagged catholics, death, irony, languages, really cool words
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July 18, 1870
On This Day in HISTORY in 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. Immediately afterwards Pope Pius IX walked into one of the free-standing marble pillars in the Vatican while walking and talking with Don Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveria e Daun, the Prime Minster of Portugal and promptly broke … Continue reading