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To: Polybius
Polybius wrote: Protestantism had it's own versions of the auto da fe. Nineteen accused "witches" were hanged on Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts in 1692:

Proving that the Spanish Inquisition was nothing more sinister than a Friar's Club celebrity roast; a bunch of merry japsters larking about; a sort of a prototypical hotfoot that got out of hand, I suppose?

35 posted on 09/27/2003 3:11:04 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc
Polybius wrote: Protestantism had it's own versions of the auto da fe. Nineteen accused "witches" were hanged on Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts in 1692:

Proving that the Spanish Inquisition was nothing more sinister than a Friar's Club celebrity roast; a bunch of merry japsters larking about; a sort of a prototypical hotfoot that got out of hand, I suppose?

No. Proving that religious intolerance was not a uniquely Spanish trait before the Age of Enlightment and proving that the First Amendment was adopted, not to protect against the Spanish Inquisition setting up shop in Philadelphia, but as a safeguard against English Protestantism's own history of excesses in rooting out "heresy" by use of state power.

55 posted on 09/27/2003 3:49:37 PM PDT by Polybius
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