God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

by Cullen Murphy

  232. [>] The process began with a pastoral letter: Pope John Paul II, “Tertio Millennio Adveniente,” November 10, 1994; “As the Third Millennium Draws Near,” L’Osservatore Romano, November 14, 1994.

  [>] It continued in 1998 with the document: Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” March 16, 1998.

  [>] in a penitential service: Alessandra Stanley, “Pope Asks Forgiveness for Errors of the Church Over 2,000 Years,” New York Times, March 13, 2000.

  [>] “Death to the butchers of the Inquisition!”: Kertzer, Prisoner of the Vatican, pp. 265–267.

  [>] roses are frequently left: Rory Carroll, “Vatican on Defensive as Italian Atheists Honour Their Martyr,” The Guardian, February 17, 2000; John L. Allen, “The Unofficial Jubilee Year Guide to Rome,” National Catholic Reporter, October 20, 2000.

  [>] mounted a raucous reenactment: Alessandra Stanley, “Honoring a Heretic Whom Vatican ‘Regrets’ Burning,” New York Times, February 17, 2000.

  [>]King Juan Carlos joined Israel’s president: “Spanish Royal Couple Arrive Here Tomorrow,” Reuters, November 7, 1993.

  233. [>] periods of “intolerance and persecution”: Alan Riding, “500 Years After Expulsion, Spain Reaches Out to Jews,” New York Times, April 1, 1992.

  [>] the same status in law: William Drozdiak, “Spain’s Inglorious Edict of 1492: Apology of the Nation That Expelled Its Jews,” Washington Post, March 31, 1992.

  [>] to no avail: Isambard Wilkinson, “King Snubs Moorish Appeal for Apology,” Daily Telegraph, January 20, 2005.

  [>] “I support Ferdinand and Isabella”: “Former Spanish PM Defends Pope, Says Muslims Should Apologise,” Agence France Presse, September 23, 2006.

  234. [>] some 1,271 government organizations . . . deal with national-security concerns: Dana Priest and William M. Arken, “Top Secret America,” Washington Post, July 19, 2010.

  235. [>] people cannot discover if their names are on it: Ellen Nakashima, “Single Tip Can Now Land a Person on US Terrorism Watch List,” Boston Globe, December 30, 2010.

  [>] referred to as a “blurred groin”: “Humorist Dave Barry and His TSA Pat-Down,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio, November 15, 2010.

  [>] made to undergo an “enhanced pat down”: Mary Forgione, “TSA’s Patdown of 6-year-old Girl Draws Anger—and a Call for Change,” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2011; Ed O’Keefe, “TSA, Congress to Review Screening Procedures After Pat-down of 6-year-old Girl,” Washington Post, April 13, 2011.

  [>] special prosecutors . . . led to a culture of obsessive investigation: Anthony Lewis, “The Prosecutorial State,” American Prospect, January/February 1999.

  [>] rationalists of the Enlightenment conceived of government: Bosher, The French Revolution, pp. 246–247.

  [>]“in which everybody is deprived of political freedom”: Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence,” New York Review of Books, February 27, 1969.

  236. [>] The effort was probably doomed: “FBI Ditches Carnivore Surveillance System,” Associated Press, January 18, 2005.

  [>] identify some of the thousands of keywords: One such list can be found at http://www .angelfire.com/wa/militia/echelon1.html.

  [>] similar initiatives survive: Siobhan Gorman, “NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data,” Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2008.

  [>] The attorney general . . . was in intensive care: Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, “Gonzales Hospital Episode Detailed,” Washington Post, May 16, 2007.

  [>] surveillance of this sort continues: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,” New York Times, December 16, 2005; James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls,” New York Times, December 21, 2005.

  237. [>] companies will provide bespoke systems: Christopher Rhoads and Loretta Chao, “Iran’s Web Spying Aided by Western Technology,” Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009.

  [>] “a normal condition of politics”: Jack Balkin, “Bradley Manning, Barack Obama, and the National Surveillance State,” Balkinization, March 17, 2011.

  [>] number of state and federal requests for wiretap authorization: “Applications for Orders Authorizing or Approving the Interception of Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communications,” Administrative Office of the United States Courts, June 2011.

  [>] a graphic display of his personal movements: Noam Cohen, “It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know,” New York Times, March 26, 2011.

  [>] predicting if you’re about to jump to another phone company: Robert Lee Hotz, “The Really Smart Phone,” Wall Street Journal, April 23–24, 2011.

  238. [>] “Computer vision” systems are now employed: Steve Lohr, “Computers That See You and Watch Over You,” New York Times, January 1, 2011.

  [>] Under the new Texas guidelines: Tom Leonard, “Biblical Values and Confederates Promoted in Texas Textbook Revisions,” Daily Telegraph, May 21, 2010; Brad Knickerbocker, “In Texas, Social-Studies Textbooks Get a Conservative Makeover,” Christian Science Monitor, May 22, 2010; James C. McKinley, Jr., “Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change,” New York Times, March 12, 2010.

  239. [>] decreed that profanity was no longer to be used: Cassell Bryan-Low and Aaron Lucchettti, “George Carlin Never Would’ve Cut at the New Goldman Sachs,” Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2010.

  [>] Amazon was able to delete those books remotely: Brad Stone, “Amazon Erases Orwell Books from Kindle,” New York Times, July 17, 2009.

  [>] “second-generation filtering”: Ronald J. Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski, “Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security,” International Political Sociology, vol. 4, no. 1 (2010), pp. 15–32.

  240. [>] managed to shut down the entire Internet in the country: James Glanz and John Markoff, “Egypt’s Autocracy Found the ‘Off’ Switch,” New York Times, February 16, 2011.

  [>] to collect names and trace relationships: Farnaz Fassihi, “Iranian Crackdown Goes Global,” Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2009; Evgeny Morozov, “Foreign Policy: Iran’s Terrifying Facebook Police,” National Public Radio, July 13, 2009.

  [>] “What if the liberating potential of the Internet”: Morozov, The Net Delusion, p. 59.

  [>] “exploiting cyberspace for their own strategic purposes”: Evgeny Morozov, “Iran: Downside to the ‘Twitter Revolution,’” Dissent, vol. 56, no. 5 (2009), pp. 10–14.

  [>] content it considers inappropriate: Nicholas D. Kristof, “Banned in Beijing,” New York Times, January 22, 2011.

  [>] demanded . . . that he release all the private e-mails: Josh Marshall, “Wis. GOP FOIAs Emails of State University Prof Critical of Gov. Walker,” Talking Points Memo, March 25, 2011; Paul Krugman, “American Thought Police,” New York Times, March 27, 2011.

  [>] Amazon dropped . . . no longer process financial contributions: “Banks and WikiLeaks,” New York Times, December 25, 2010; Lauren Kirchner, “Why Amazon Caved,” Columbia Journalism Review, December 3, 2010; Amy Davidson, “Banishing WikiLeaks?,” The New Yorker, December 1, 2010.

  241. [>] only one person in six: “Freedom of the Press 2010: Broad Setbacks to Global Media Freedom,” p. 20. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=533.

  [>] “No longer is it easy to hide”: Ronald Deibert, “Blogging Dangerously,” Index on Censorship, vol. 39, no. 4 (2010), pp. 88–90.

  [>] search engine called SeekFind . . . site called I’m Halal: Habiba Nosheen, “Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results,” National Public Radio, September 13, 2010.

  [>]“the myth of the separation of church and state”: Cathy Young, “GOP’s ‘Christian Nation,’” Reason, July 14, 2004.

  242. [>] Angry rejoinders were instantaneous: “Fox News Figures Outraged Over Obama’s ‘Christian Nation’ Comment,” MediaMatters, April 9, 2009.

  [>] professed bewilderment: “Sarah Palin’s ‘Christian Nation’ Remarks Spark Debate,” ABC News, April 20, 2010.

  [>]
an army of “prayer warriors”: Julian Lukins, “The Faith of Sarah Palin,” Charisma, January 1, 2009; Michael Joseph Gross, “Is Palin’s Rise Part of God’s Plan?,” VF.com, September 17, 2010; Scott Conroy, “Palin Feels Strength of ‘Prayer Warriors,’” CBS News, October 22, 2008.

  [>] “if the Holy Spirit lives within you”: David White, “Gov.-elect Robert Bentley Intends to Be Governor Over All, but Says Only Christians Are His ‘Brothers and Sisters,’” Birmingham News, January 17, 2011.

  [>] laid the blame . . . “pact with the devil”: Manya Brachear, “Pat Robertson Blames Haiti Quake on ‘Pact with the Devil,’” Chicago Tribune, January 18, 2010; “Falwell Apologizes to Gays, Feminists, Lesbians,” CNN, September 14, 2001.

  [>]the idea of an Islamic facility near “hallowed ground”: For good overviews of the controversy, see Lisa Miller, “War Over Ground Zero,” Newsweek, August 16, 2010; and Will Saletan, “Mosque Uprising,” Slate, August 9, 2010.

  243. [>] “entitles them to positions”: Fareed Zakaria, “The Real Ground Zero: Let’s Promote Muslim Moderates Here,” Newsweek, August 16, 2010.

  [>] “no more mosques”: http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147497353.

  [>] Opposition to Islamic facilities: Laurie Goodstein, “Across Nation, Mosque Projects Meet Opposition,” New York Times, August 7, 2010.

  [>] plans to gather copies of the Koran: Chad Smith, “Dove World Told It Can’t Burn Qurans,” Gainesville Sun, August 19, 2010.

  [>] “send a message to Islam”: Damien Cave, “Far from Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is No Longer Ignored,” New York Times, August 26, 2010.

  [>] riots in Afghanistan: Enayat Najafizada and Rod Nordland, “Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning,” New York Times, April 1, 2011; Rod Nordland, “Taliban Exploit Tensions Seething in Afghan Society,” New York Times, April 5, 2011; Ismail Sameem, “Ten Dead in Afghan Quran Burning Protests,” MSNBC, April 2, 2011.

  [>]from “the seed of Islam”: “Graham: Obama Born a Muslim, Now a Christian,” CNN Politics, August 19, 2010.

  244. 70 percent of Americans: “Overwhelming Majority Oppose Mosque Near Ground Zero,” CNN Politics, August 11, 2010.

  [>] ballot initiative . . . restrict any use of sharia law: Donna Leinwand, “States Enter Debate on Sharia Law,” USA Today, December 9, 2010; Carla Hinton, “Measure Keeps Courts From Considering Sharia Law,” Oklahoman, November 5, 2010.

  [>] “actual word of God”: Frank Newport, “One Third of Americans Believe the Bible Is Literally True,” Gallup News Service, May 25, 2007.

  [>]had consulted “a higher power”: Nicholas Lemann, “The Will to Believe,” New Republic, February 17, 2011.

  245. [>] god of anger . . . gene of aggression: Louis Menand, “The Gods Are Anxious,” The New Yorker, December 16, 1996.

  [>] “If there’s a one percent chance”: Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, p. 62.

  247. [>] “not wholly responsible for the way we are”: Michael J. Sandel, “The Case Against Perfection,” Atlantic Monthly, April 2004.

  248. [>] “To make mankind just and happy”: Isaiah Berlin, “On the Pursuit of the Ideal,” New York Review of Books, March 17, 1988.

  249. [>] he came across the manuscript: M.A.E. Nickson, “Locke and the Inquisition of Toulouse,” British Museum Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3/4 (Autumn 1972), pp. 83–92.

  [>] “When you see what it contains”: Bourne, The Life of John Locke, vol. 2, p. 75.

  [>] turned on the very idea of uncertainty: Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, pp. 25–27, 33, 37, 38, 43, 51–54.

  250. [>] he calls the process: See Searle, Making the Social World and The Construction of Social Reality.

  [>] “to possess but one idea”: Boswell, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. 6, p. 304.

  251. [>] “bright halo of enthusiasm”: Reese, Inside the Vatican, p. 251.

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