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To: Alamo-Girl
"So yes, I am curious whether the Jews are satisfied with the inquisition revisionism."

That is preposterous. Your concern should be with the truth, not whether any single group is OK with revisionism, distortion and lies.

Here is a point to ponder. The royalty of the medieval period ruled by what they claimed to be divine right, as determined and predestined by God. Anyone not believing in God represented a threat to their authority.

To this end inquisitions were called by secular authorities as a litmus test for loyalty. The standard was Christianity and the Church's participation in the Inquisitions only determined whether an accused was Christian or not. The Church passed and carried out no sentences. That is why your Professor Rummel did not include the victims of the inquisitions in the category of Religious Genocide.

Now ask yourself if you believe that Christ is satisfied or happy with you distorting the history of the Church.

2,965 posted on 09/12/2011 7:58:33 AM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law; Alamo-Girl

Clarification, at least as regards Spain. (Full disclosure, apparently there was a Dominican Inquisitor in France who was a real bad guy.)

The deal is “Catholic Spain” finally beats the Muslims. Though Jews had to pay the jizaya and labored under other impediments, they got on okay with the Muslims (as well as at least SOME Catholics.

But the victory after centuries of conflict was not all that secure. Fear (whether justified or not) of spies and of divided loyalties was great. Surely prejudice played a role, but, as is often so, unreasoned prejudice had a few facts around which to crystallize.

Hence the expulsion of the Jews. Maybe some clergy supported this, but it’s not really the Church’s department.

Except that expulsions are unjust — and expensive, ruinous, for the expellees. So there were many false conversions.

Now THAT’s the Church’s business. So if a family is rumored to be keeping Kosher yet has been baptized, there’s an issue.

I baptized a guy once who later told me that he came to me to get baptized so that he could get close (if you know what I mean) to some dame. I was “locum tenens” for a pastor on Sabbatical. His congregation had some real on fire Christians, and they pretty much love bombed him. So his cynical resistance was overcome, and his tears at his baptism were, well wonderful.

But this is about how even today people will fake it.

Anyway, the idea of perjured communicants was horrifying to he Church, and frightening to the King.

So if you put your head where their heads were, you can understand, a little, where they were coming from.


3,017 posted on 09/12/2011 8:09:18 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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