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To: RoadTest
Like Patty Hurst, they joined their persecutors.

Not quite. The conversos were forced to "convert" to Catholicism on penalty of death by torture. Those who were able to maintain their Judaism had to do so secretly. I don't think you can blame people for pretending to play along when the alternative is the killing of yourself and your family.

50 posted on 10/30/2005 10:48:48 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

"The conversos were forced to "convert" to Catholicism on penalty of death by torture."

I've heard that asserted, but never credibly.

I have no doubt that you sincerely believe it, but I don't.


53 posted on 10/31/2005 5:37:55 AM PST by dsc
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To: Alter Kaker
The conversos were forced to "convert" to Catholicism on penalty of death by torture.

You have a source for that? My understanding is that conversos were Catholics suspected of being practicing Jews, or "false conversions."

64 posted on 10/31/2005 10:51:44 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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