[xkaydet65]

Torquenada was the face of Spanish Catholicism. He was not the face of Thomas More or Erasmus. The Holy Inquisition and The Spanish Inquisition are not the same institutions, and had somewhat different purposes. English political and religious leaders used the existence of the Spanish Inquisition to arouse nationalistic and religious fervor in the face of Spanish Imperialism. Neither Institution is defensible in the 21st Century world, but the Spanish Inquisition, being the result not only of zealous Catholicism, but of a culture formed by the 700 year Reconquista was truly a thing by itself.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with you about the leaders of Catholicism in the late Middle Ages. However, in my one phrase reference I was trying to make a single metaphorical point, nothing more.

Billybob