[Steve_Seattle]

"1500 people died during the entire Inquisition and the Church did not put them to death, the State did."

I have heard higher figures - 8,000 to 20,000 - over a period of several hundred years, but whatever the figure is, it is a tiny fraction of the "millions" figure that is often cited in popular literature and press accounts.

The figure is also far less than the number killed in the first year of the French Revolution, and a small fraction of the number killed by leftist governments and leftist revolutions in the 20th century, or by Muslim extremists in the last 20 years.

[Slyfox]

I heard the figure of 1500 from a scholar and historian on Catholic radio this morning.

[CatherineofAragon]

If the 1500 figure is correct, then twice that number were killed on September 11 alone.