Posted on 07/18/2015 11:11:54 AM PDT by Gamecock
Clearly not enough.
Good thing the torture has stopped., I live in an area that is 85% RC
I noticed...< grin >
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. It would seem completely natural for a muslim convert to take up where he left off killing Jews.
Frederick II was Holy Roman Emperor, not King of France. The King of France as of 1225 was Louis VIII (reigned 1223-1226).
The Truth about the Spanish Inquisition
Thomas F. Madden
April 2, 2011
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/the-truth-about-the-spanish-inquisition
Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records. These documents are a goldmine for modern historians who have plunged greedily into them. Thus far, the fruits of that research have made one thing abundantly clear — the myth of the Spanish Inquisition has nothing at all to do with the real thing.
; )
We often think of the Roman Inquisition as being far in the past. But it was very active in WWII, and its office in the Papacy remains open even until this very day. The name has been changed. The Concordat was agreed to by Yugoslavia and the Vatican is well documented. This laid the groundwork for the agreement between German, Yugoslavia, and the Vatican.
Toby Green, himself a Catholic and historian is not critical, but is rather dimly a documenter in his book "Inquisition". He documents not only the Spainish and Portugal inquisitions but that of Mexico , central and south America, north Africa, and eastern Asia.
Green states the number of deaths at the direction of the Vatican rivals the number of deaths by Mao and Stalin, albeit over a period of 600 years.
Some consider the Roman Inauisition as the darkest hours of the earth. Green estimated between 50 and 100 million were murdered at the order of the Vatican, although Green (catholic) believes the number to be closer to the higher of those two estimates.
I don’t know about her family, but mine certainly was!
My Mother’s mother’s side of the family were also.
I don’t remember where I got it from but vaguely remember googling ‘more people killed in secular wars’ or something to that effect- You can find a graph at this site showing religious wars count for less than 4% of all wars (not including Islamic wars)- i’ll see if I can find the source of my figures presented htough
https://carm.org/religion-cause-war
Thank you.
You can find a list of wars and deaths here at wiki- while not categorized like I had- into ‘religious non religious’ you can pretty much figure out which ones were or not religious- I’m still looking for my source htough as it was more informative I htink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll
That is an excellent site with different time periods delineated.
Hard to say how many were Protestant. None, at first.
If 32,000 died, as is stated, over the course of 400 years that means on average about 80 people per year, equal to about the number of Jews in one train car at Auschwitz, or several days of incineration at Lenin’s Lubianka prison. (The Czar, in the year of the revolution, executed a total of 12 people for various capital offences.) This in no way excuses their use of Torture.
C.S. Lewis traced possible source for the use of torture by the church and by civil authorities in Europe to certain permissions incautiously granted by Augustine, the bishop of Hippo I North Africa. When faced with the abandonment of the Faith by a group of North African heretics—I do not recall their names...began with a “D,” Augustine worked to bring them back to the faith, but they were resistant. An exasperated Augustine, agreed to their torture by Civil authorities to force them back to the faith. (He was Roman and shared their outlook about torture.)
You sound like a murderous ISIS militant not a Christian.
You sound like somebody who needs to read the entire post before commenting (it wasn't that lengthy a post, so that shouldn't be a challenge)
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