The Guantanamo Inquisition

The supposed tortures taking affect at Guantanamo Bay could have negative effects on the spreading of democracy for hundreds of years.On what do I base this theorem?Why the Spanish Inquisition of course.

For you unfamiliar with the Spanish Inquisition,it was a doctrine initiated by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 to basically covert heretics and heathens to Christianity via tortuous methods.

According to my facts,this involved the death and torture of many peoples,but most remembered are the torturous death of the Jewish people.

The lasting effects of this 'program' are many,but I feel it is best illustrated by this one personal example.I was born and raised Catholic.There are many,many Catholic people of great faith today whom follow both their church and Jesus Christ with their whole heart and soul.And I have nothing but admiration for the vast majority of these very holy and religious Christians.But many deeply compassionate people have left the church because of this Spanish Inquisition.My brother,Carl being one of them.

My brother,Carl is one of the nicest,kindest,coolest people you would ever want to meet.But when he learned what the Catholic Church did during the S.I. he quit going to church all together.He couldn't stomach torture in the name of the Lord.

No matter that the church was probably no different then most governing bodies of it's day(some reports say that it was even more merciful then most),Carl believed that Christ and torture just could not mix.He refused to believe,then,that this Catholic Church could be God's Church,and left for good.

This is the very real danger of Guantanamo Bay.Will otherwise compassionate freedom loving people forgo democracy because of the short sightedness of our current administration?Will not just Muslims,but our fellow Americans,not four hundred years from now,but today,start to forget the path of democracy just because of this flagrant abuse of it?

That is my real fear.Not of terrorists,but of our own nation destroying what we honor and love most not just for us,but for those well into the future as well.

I would rather have my family die in a terrorist attack then forgo democracy,truth,justice and the American way.There has to be a better way.America has to lead the cause of freedom...or the path could be lost forever.