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To: SeekAndFind

Good one but it won’t work. Catholics have revised the history of the Inquisition. Either it wasn’t Catholics that did it (rogue Protestants no doubt), or it wasn’t really bad (Jews should thank Catholics, stealing their property, torturing, forcing conversion, and murder aren’t that bad - after all, they were told to leave Spain! ).


18 posted on 09/15/2014 9:22:31 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

“Catholics have revised the history of the Inquisition.”

False. The revision that has taken place is on the part of non-Catholic historians. Catholic historians have always said the same thing and now non-Catholic historians are closer to them in opinion than 50 years ago. An example of this would be the shift in opinion of Henry Kamen (Jewish) between the time of his first research on the inquisition in the 1960s and 1998 when he published The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision.

“Either it wasn’t Catholics that did it (rogue Protestants no doubt), or it wasn’t really bad (Jews should thank Catholics, stealing their property, torturing, forcing conversion, and murder aren’t that bad - after all, they were told to leave Spain! ).”

And there you demonstrate the problem - ignorance passed off as if it were the actual history of the inquisition:

“Either it wasn’t Catholics that did it”

I have never heard anyone claim it wasn’t Catholics so where you’re getting this from I have no idea.

“(rogue Protestants no doubt),”

And no one at all claims that either.

“or it wasn’t really bad”

Clearly the inquisition was not as bad as some people would have us believe. Jimmy Swaggart claims more than 60,000,000 people were executed by the inquisition - which is a logical impossibility. That in itself shows some people simply make things up and mouth-breathing idiots believe it.

“(Jews should thank Catholics, stealing their property, torturing, forcing conversion, and murder aren’t that bad - after all, they were told to leave Spain! ).”

What forced conversions of Jews on the part of Spanish Inquisition? Name them.


38 posted on 09/15/2014 12:38:54 PM PDT by vladimir998
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