The Inquisition

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[Gamecock]

And the Catholics call Luther an anti-Semite.

[anglian]

It will surely surprise those who believe that millions of people died in the Spanish Inquisition to learn that throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, less than three people per year were sentenced to death by the Inquisition throughout the Spanish Empire, which ranged from Spain to Sicily and Peru. Secular historians given access to the Vatican’s archives in 1998 discovered that of the 44,674 individuals tried between 1540 and 1700, only 804 were recorded as being relictus culiae saeculari. The 763-page report indicates that only 1 percent of the 125,000 trials recorded over the entire inquisition ultimately resulted in execution by the secular authority, which means that throughout its infamous 345-year history, the dread Spanish Inquisition was less than one-fourteenth as deadly on an annual basis as children’s bicycles.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56045

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting/educational.

[Gamecock]

And that makes it OK how?

[anglian]

And that makes it OK how?

Why do you say that? Are you saying ot was OK?

[Petronski]

And the Catholics call Luther an anti-Semite.

Martin Luther's dirty little book:
On the Jews and their lies

[Gamecock]

That’s what I got from reading your post.

[AmericanVictory]

It would be interesting to compare this to the number of heretics executed in Islam for their heresy.

[count-your-change]

But then children’s bicycle deaths are not murders are they?
Nor do the manufacturers imagine they are doing God’s will by those deaths so very bad comparison, very bad.

[Gamecock]

And where do you think Luther picked up that philosophy?

[Petronski]

And where do you think Luther picked up that philosophy?

Deep within the well of his own poisonous heart.

You shall know them by their fruits.

[Skooz]

That shows Luther to have been of the same opinion of virtually every other non-Jewish European of his era.

[7MMmag]

And the Catholics call Luther an anti-Semite.

Yeah, I saw that too.

To those folks practicing "selective" apologetics, one could say,

"I see your anti-Semite Luther, and raise you an Inquisition."

They should just fold that hand...but no. We are subjected to veritable blizzards of apology totally lacking actual admission of fault. And fault=error.

We both know where that rationally leads.

Since some simply cannot face unpleasant & unwelcome facts, I predict that;
The "spin" cycle will start, in one, two, three...

[Petronski]

How many of them used a position of spiritual leadership to promote it?

No Luther, No Hitler

[SeeSharp]

It is worth noting that the Inquisition was created to take the authority to try heresy away from the secular rulers. Prior to the Inquisition any petty local baron could accuse anyone of heresy and try them himself.

[Skooz]

Excuse me?

You think that European antisemitism — ubiquitous for centuries before Luther was born — began with Luther?

[Petronski]

You think that European antisemitism — ubiquitous for centuries before Luther was born — began with Luther?

Your words, not mine.

[Skooz]

Right.

Martin Luther started European antisemitism although European antisemitism existed for centuries before Luther was born.

Got it.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Perhaps Luther got used to killing from the enormous numbers of witches who were executed, primarily in Protestant Europe, at a rate 100 times higher than the number of heretics burned in Catholic Europe.