The Horrors of the Inquisition and Its Modern Advocates

Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo

[juliosevero]

The Horrors of the Inquisition and Its Modern Advocates

By Julio Severo

As perfidious as to commit a crime is to excuse, understate or deny it.

On October 2015 Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho said in his Brazilian Twitter, "A entidade chamada Inquisicao e uma invencao ficcional de protestantes." Translation: "The entity called the Inquisition was a fictional invention of Protestants." His original statement is here.

Other pro-Inquisition statements by him are exposed here.

If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is correct, then Protestants are liars, because they have been saying about the horrors of the Inquisition for five centuries.

If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is correct, then Jews are liars, because they have been saying about the horrors of the Inquisition for more than five centuries.

If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is correct, then Pope John Paul II is a liar, because he compared the Inquisition to communism and Nazism. In fact, he asked forgiveness for the Inquisition's crimes.

Speaking to cardinals on the Inquisition in 1994, the pope said that confessing institutional sin would be a prominent part of the Jubilee year 2000. "How can we be silent about so many kinds of violence perpetrated in the name of the faith?" he asked, specifically mentioning "religious wars, courts of the Inquisition, and other violations of the rights of the human person." He compared them to "the crimes of Hitler's Nazism and Marxist Stalinism."

In the pope's place, Olavo and a few radical Catholics promoting a historical revisionist view of the Inquisition would require Protestants, Jews and Pope John Paul II to ask forgiveness for their "fictional inventions" against the Inquisition.

Communism and Islam, which committed and commit major crimes against humankind, thrive on historical revisionism. How can a Brazilian movement that calls itself conservative have this kind of dishonest existence?

The right path for Catholic conservatism in Brazil is to recognize the Inquisition's horrors and to confess institutional sin, as Pope John Paul II did. Such an admission would prevent pro-family and pro-life Catholic unity with evangelicals and Orthodoxies from breaking down because of an irrational and deranged adherence to an institution that did everything the devil loves (to kill, steal and destroy) and did nothing the Lord Jesus commanded (to love sinners and preach the Gospel).

The wrong and wicked path is to imitate communists and Islamists and advocate historical revisionism. Such revisionism has nothing to do with authentic conservatism. To excuse or understate the Inquisition's horrors has nothing to do with real Christianity and it represents an attack on Jews and Protestants. It also represents an attack on a Catholic Church that since Pope John Paul II has distanced itself from the Inquisition and sought a platform to defend life and family, not torture, killings and human rights violations.

How can a Brazilian "conservative" movement that calls itself pro-life stand strong against the horrors of the abortion industry and communism when it denies, excuses or understates the Inquisition's horrors and makes liars of its Jewish and Protestant victims?

What kind of Brazilian "conservative" movement is this, where a man calling himself its head does nothing more than claim "the Inquisition was a fictional invention" and revile evangelical and catholic conservatives disagreeing with his personal views?

Portuguese version of this article: Os horrores da Inquisicao e seus modernos defensores

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Bible Ignorance, Clergy Corruption and the Inquisition in England before the Reformation

Neocons, the Inquisition, Russophobia and Lies

Why Call Names? An Answer to Olavo de Carvalho

The Pope and the Vatican Should Be Confronted about Traditional Catholic Stances against Israel

Can a Pro-Life Activist Defend The Inquisition?

A Global Inquisition to Put Homosexuals to Death?

[MHGinTN]

Graham’s Six Grape is what I buy in case-lots. Takes about two to three years to use one up.

[FourtySeven]

LOL, there is more than one person “focused” on “last wording” in this thread I can assure you!

[MHGinTN]

Amusing, isn’t it!

[vladimir998]

“Perhaps we have a glimpse of the problem: you think, but you do not humble yourself before Him and let Him be Savior in the now, since you are so invested in your own works of ‘righteousness’.”

Perhaps we have a glimpse of the problem: you apparently assume that I do not humble myself before Him and let Him be my Savior because I dare to strongly disagree with Protestant heresy and take anti-Catholics to task for their ignorance. I have no investment at all in my “own works of ‘righteousness’” and in fact perform none. Christ performs all works of righteousness that impact me. I merely cooperate with His grace. But you apparently (and apparently self-righteously) assume otherwise - even though you have never, ever met me. Such an assumption shows no humility at all. Kettle. Pot.

“Sometimes your ‘righteous’ sarcasm is amusing, sometimes it is just sad for what it reveals about your ego.”

No, what I say reveals that I care about truth far more than others’ feeling. Many here do not. And some of those who do not are not only steeped in posting falsehoods, but sloppy in details, deficient in knowledge. All of that leads to a hypocrisy that is breathtaking. Hence, your post.

“BTW, vlad, I know Him well enough to know He needs no mediatrix”

But you apparently don’t know Him well enough to know He CHOOSES to use one.

“and is not being eaten at Catholic altars.”

And yet if you really knew Him you would know His generosity at the altar. He gave Himself for our salvation completely - including His body. And He gives us His flesh on those altars even now (1 Corinthians 11:29).

“God has given to us His Word,”

But He didn’t stop there nor did He ever give His Word to men so that some might oppose Him and His Church while hypocritically claiming to be His greatest followers. And yet, that is exactly what Protestant anti-Catholics do.

“... and therein I find all that one needs to be born from above and live in a relationship with The Soter.”

And you don’t do that by attacking His Church.

“It must be nearly impossible for a catholic to believe God does not need nor does He correspond with a magicsteeringthem oligarchy.”

God established the Church (Matthew 16: 18). He gave it authority to teach (2 Corinthians 10:8, 13:10).

“Try to catch the image of a band of red-robed religious oligarchy, leading a vast parade of souls behind them, along a wide road, paved and polished, toward a broad gate, tall and wide, ever so slowly opening to receive this parade. What lies on the other side of the gate is not Heaven.

What you imagine can only lead to the bizarre apparently, but that doesn’t tell us anything except what you spend your time imagining (Proverbs 29:11).

[MHGinTN]

Exhibit A

[MHGinTN]

This particular post includes the particulars of what we are called to expose ... I think.

[MHGinTN]

pingalingaling for exhibit A

[daniel1212]

This particular post includes the particulars of what we are called to expose ...

Which has been, extensively by the grace of God. But you are dealing with certain souls who cannot perceive (or perhaps read) what they ask for and charge is missing, and their multiple errors while alleging that of others, nor even acknowledge good faith apologies and compliments. Such relegate themselves as unfit for meaningful exchange.

[MHGinTN]

The poster most likely cannot read the links because they are too on target and expose what catholiciism IS today grown down to.

[metmom]

But these murders were not the worst murders it committed. The worst murders were its murders of soul.

Which is totally irrelevant.

Worst crimes can rightfully be laid at the feet of Satan.

These crimes were committed in the name of Christ, besmirching the good name of Jesus in a horrific way that nothing else could have.

The issue isn't that worse crimes were committed, but rather that they did something in the name of Jesus that He would never have condoned in the least. Nothing that Jesus ever taught could ever have been taken as to imply that any mistreatment of any kind of someone who rejected him was in order.

It's GOD'S NOT man's responsibility to deal with those who reject Christ.

We are to pray for those who reject Him. Nowhere is anyone authorized to use physical force, torture, or threats of death to intimidate or coerce anyone into a relationship with Jesus.

[metmom]

DR:"There was nothing Christian about the church that did these ghastly acts."

Vlad: Sure there was - Christ's Church is filled with men and certainly not all of them are perfect.

Well, there we have it. A Catholic who thinks that the Inquisition and what it did was Christian in character.

That sure explains a lot of FRoman Catholic behavoir on FR.

[ealgeone]

I’ve noticed several catholics on these threads have very snarky, almost condescending tags. What does that say about their character??

[Elsie]

The Horrors of the Inquisition and Its Modern Advocates

was caused by correct theology.

[Elsie]

The Chief Weapon is Surprise.

[Elsie]

Same could be said about the Protestant Revolution.

And will be by folks like you!

[Elsie]

In all fairness, the Inquisition needs some context.

Everybody was doing it!

[Elsie]

The pope does not agree with you that protestants are damned.

I'd better get my odometer checked; for my mileage has varied!

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"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours." — Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)

Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema. — Vatican 1, Ses. 4, Cp. 1

[Elsie]

Attack what I ACTUALLY say all you want.

No need to attack; when merely reposting your words will work.

[Elsie]

How DARE you post all those damned FACTS!?!?!?

[Elsie]

...the RM once had to warn you about boasting to "other Freepers, individually, that they will fail in their debate with you and how superior you are to them,"