The Catholic bashers, along with those who hate Christianity in general, don't give a rat's rear for the facts.
They have their minds made up. Facts only infuriate them.
Regardless of the historical truth, they will remain, as ever, with their fingers in their ears, spewing their hate in between Gollum-like gasps of "We hates it! We hates it forever!"
The only question I have is why there have to be multiple inquisition posts - a new one arising everytime someone reminds us that Rome tells it's side, then history provides us with another picture. Rome can't seem to tell the truth - and it's understandable. The truth paints them into a bad corner doctrinally. Thus as noted on the other threads, the history shows that Rome pushed, poked and prodded the civil authorities to give heresy the death penalty, and then strongarmed it's enforcement under threat of excommunication and heresy thereafter. Now Rome says, 'we didn't kill nobody, it was the fault of the civil authorities'. That's the stance in your postings time after time and it's in the Catholic encyclopedia, etc. It's a lie on it's face. Has nothing to do with whether anyone likes you or not, likes catholicism or not. Some of us are just sick of being lied to.
I don't see it as an exculpatory piece, rather a historical lay out, an educational piece. The skinny on what went on during that period.
"We hates it! We hates it forever!"
I got a big kick out of that. It fully personifies the mob, and I don't mean Luca Brazzi's MOB either.