Posted on 07/18/2015 11:11:54 AM PDT by Gamecock
Is that supposed to be a sarcastic or cynical statement, Game?
One is one too many. Satan had control of church hierarchy for those years. That is the only explanation for the atrocities committed in the name of God.
People also forget that many Christians were Muslim converts who converted to avoid deportation or death but who still saw the world through the barbarous lense of the Islamic faith they were indoctrinated with from birth.
It’s easy for a religious system, no matter how sincerely it first believes it is about the revelation of a deity that is due service, to decay into being about itself. This is a very human failing.
This is making it about the packaging rather than about what is inside.
Anyhow the current disunited situation, Babelish as it looks, might be the only defense against the whole edifice turning into a synagogue of Satan.
That could partially explain the ruthlessness, though one would think that it would have decayed as the Muslim population of Spain dwindled during the Inquisition.
Satan? Yep! Muslim converts to be exact!
here is wiki link to a Muslim convert that is responsible for 2,000+ deaths during the inquisition!
Tomás de Torquemada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada
Did I really need a Hillary hashtag? Evidently so.
That wiki article says that some of Torquemada’s ancestors were Jewish converts to Catholicism not muslim.
Highly unexpected, either way.
You link your own article...Thanks for being honest!
wow, your right. I miss-read that.
Sorry about that.
Conflating the Spanish Inquisition with the Thirty Years War is just dumb and bad history. The Thirty Years War wasn’t as simple as “Protestant vs Catholic”; there were Catholics and Protestants on both sides. And it was a *war*, not a judicial proceeding.
no need to say sorry :)
Better than me running around telling everyone he was a muslim convert.
No direct answers in the article.
Sort of like what I posted this morning.
There are a lot more religious “yeses” to your list. Could you give us the source where you found it all?
It had an inescapable logic. It would have explained Torquemada perfectly.
Is significantly different than the thesis question, How Many Protestants Were Killed in the Inquisition?
The answer to the thread's title is "not nearly enough." My answer to the second question is that I don't know of any who were.
(And, by the way, I wish that the Holy See would have never gotten rid of the Inquisition...we need it more now than ever)
Why the difference?
First, the Inquisition was not a period of time. The Inquisition was an office of the Holy See, established in approximately 1225 by Pope Gregory IX. Interestingly, he established it to reign in the actions taken by the civil ruler Frederick II, who was in the process of taking care of heretics in France on his own (mostly without any justice: in Frederick's France, if you were accused, you were guilty).
Secondly, as far as I could tell, the targets of the Inquisition were "Catholic". Catholics who embraced heretical doctrines. Its purpose was to root out those heretics and have them removed from the Church so they couldn't spread their rot further. As the Protestant's King James Version says:
[1Ti 6:20-21 KJV] 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.
[Tit 3:10-11 KJV] 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Yes, I do wish the Inquisition existed today. There are so many people today who profess to be Catholic while professing the exact opposite, they need to be rooted out and expelled. Consider public political figures like the Kennedy clan, Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, and so on...and religious figures like Kasper, Bernardin, Wuerl, Mahony, etc., and their ilk. If the State where they live had a criminal penalty for heresy, so much the better.
The comfy chair is still in use today, the horror!!
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