RANDOM WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY II

Now here's a Thought For The Day . . . . . . . . . . what is this?

People wonder and often ask me why I have become so actively atheist actually actively anti-theist in my later years . . . . . . . 
This is an instrument invented in the 15th century, by Christian priests to fracture fingers and hands of scientists, writers, painters, artists and sculptors accused of heresy.