[The] Spanish Inquisition

OSV.com ^ | 07-17-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[roamer_1]

Pssst, Baptists, KKK, Slavery, Did you manage to forget that connection?

I don't remember the KKK as being an official agent or extension of the Baptist church. Enlighten me. Slavery is a non-issue, as it existed all the way along. But if one needs to poke at it, check out the foundations of the Dominican Republic before you go poking too hard.

[ThanhPhero]

Yeah, so Protestants did it too(and more prolifically) but it’s Catholics we have to talk about. Never mind those Protestant guys in Geneva and Scotland. We mustn’t talk about them.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition

1994 BBC documentary. Yes, it begins with the infamous Monty Python scene from which many people seem to get their information regarding the Spanish Inquisition.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Yeah, so Protestants did it too(and more prolifically) but it’s Catholics we have to talk about. Never mind those Protestant guys in Geneva and Scotland. We mustn’t talk about them.”

Thank you for your kind post.

Given the recent and undefined changes on the FR Religion Forum in regards to discussion that involves Catholicism, I will allow your post to stand on its own - unrequited - and simply wish you a wonderful day.

Perhaps in the future, things will be a bit more defined and equitable. Time will tell.

[Coleus]

just love mel brooks!

[Dqban22]

The Protestant Inquisition: “Reformation” Intolerance and Persecution
Dave Armstrong
March 07, 2007

http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2007/03/protestant-inquisition-reformation.html

The intolerance of Protestantism was certainly not less tyrannical than that with which Catholicism is so much reproached. (Philosophie Positive, IV, 51)

What makes, however, Protestant persecutions specially revolting is the fact that they were absolutely inconsistent with the primary doctrine of Protestantism — the right of private judgment in matters of religious belief! Nothing can be more illogical than at one moment to assert that one may interpret the Bible to suit himself, and at the next to torture and kill him for having done so!
Nor should we ever forget that . . . the Protestants were the aggressors, the Catholics were the defenders. The Protestants were attempting to destroy the old, established Christian Church, which had existed 1500 years, and to replace it by something new, untried and revolutionary. The Catholics were upholding a Faith, hallowed by centuries of pious associations and sublime achievements; the Protestants, on the contrary, were fighting for a creed . . . which already was beginning to disintegrate into hostile sects, each of which, if it gained the upper hand, commenced to persecute the rest! . . . All religious persecution is bad; but in this case, of the two parties guilty of it, the Catholics certainly had the more defensible motives for their conduct.