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To: Gamecock

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


3 posted on 10/26/2008 1:02:33 PM PDT by anglian
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To: anglian

And that makes it OK how?


5 posted on 10/26/2008 1:04:30 PM PDT by Gamecock ("...Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" and both to Americans.)
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To: anglian

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


9 posted on 10/26/2008 1:10:31 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: anglian

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.


10 posted on 10/26/2008 1:10:38 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: anglian
the dread Spanish Inquisition was less than one-fourteenth as deadly on an annual basis as children’s bicycles.

Ahh! Revisionism, once again, raises it's ugly head.

49 posted on 02/04/2011 12:28:24 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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