I believe you've been corrected more than once on the area and range of operation of the Inquisition. Hitton was found guilty of far more than simply smuggling poorly-translated copies of the Bible into England. Beyond this, there is little worth correcting here is the way of specifics. The article is mainly just a wax ball of generalities and misrepresentations.
Ignorance...I find it amusing in an ironic sense that the main thrust of this article is about ignorance, when only an ignorant person who wants to believe what's being peddled to begin with would buy this nonsense.
And why, exactly, was William Tyndale burned at the stake? Burning people at the stake is hardly “laughable”! During the time of Tyndale, much of the clergy could not even read the Bible. The Roman Catholic church had inserted itself and its teaching between God and the laity. The only thing the laity was to know was what they were told.
“Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee?” Yet, the Roman Catholic church kept the Word of God from the people for hundreds of years! Hardly a laughing matter. It was only toward the end of the last century when the Roman Catholic church relented and finally suggested that the man in the pew could study a Bible.
Play the man, Master Ridley!
Shameful to defend what they did to that man and to others. Shameful because it taints todays catholic church with it and they had nothing to do with such atrocities. They were a totalitarian outfit. Today the Church under JPII spread love and freedom around the world.
But the Church then was anything but Christlike. For that matter Calvin and other Protestants were just as evil and murderous as the RCC. But you sound ignorant to defend those evil days, as would I were I to defend Calvin.
Give it a rest.