Well, not just Catholic...you can also include Catholic Lite. I'm a direct descendant of the last person to be burned for heresy in England, Edward Wightman. His brother brought Edward's kids over to America, forming some of the heretical (Baptist) roots from which I spring.
Don't worry...I don't hold any grudge...but it's interesting how such acts were carried out, and are still hinted at today.
I also don't think a numbers game is relevant at all. So what if Muslims are now where Catholics/Christians were in the past--does that mean Catholics/Christians should have been wiped out back then?
And please don't reference English Protestant historians for what happened during the Spanish Inquisition; otherwise, we'd have to consider Act Up's numbers for how many homosexuals exist in society.
Don't worry...I'll go by Thomas F. Madden, hero of the Inquisition :-) He confirms that "[t]orture was rare and only about 1 percent of those brought before the Spanish Inquisition were actually executed." Fair enough?
Still...would hate to be that rare victim, or in the 1 percent.
I also acknowledge that the Inquisitions turned their victims over to "secular" authorities rather than bloody themselves. Funny thing is, the reasons the "secular" authorities considered heresy a crime was because their positions were supposedly sanctioned by God. So...they weren't really independent of the Church, and since the executions were carried out in the name of Christianity, what different does it make?