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To: dervish
Making the apology an even stronger admission of Church complicity in the mistreatment of Jews in the Inquisition given the re-examination.

If the research proves the inquisition wasn't as bad as is commonly believed that makes the Church 'even more complicit'? I don't get it.

You obviously need the Church to be the bad guy. Your statement doesn't follow from my comment; Non sequitur.

60 posted on 08/19/2006 12:30:57 AM PDT by BarbaricGrandeur
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To: dervish
Also as I said the inquisition did not mistreat Jews, the inquisition had no jurisdiction over non-Christian. Unless you believe the conversos really were all secret Jews, which is something that they vehemently denied and which was also, as Kamen points out in his book, denied by the Jewish leaders in Spain at the time. If the conversos really where secret Jews then logically the inquisition was justified in suspecting them.
61 posted on 08/19/2006 12:37:29 AM PDT by BarbaricGrandeur
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