I researched also on the Inquisition awhile back and read many accounts such as you posted here. Additionally there are not only written accounts...but wood drawings and artists drawings of the torture racks etc. which were built...further there was a push to see who could build one which would inflict the most pain. Many of these are in museums, which I also visited on line. You can actually see these from the chairs full of spikes to the cones they used which they let people down onto.
I could not help but wonder if the people who did this, and the Monks who stood by and recorded it all..weren't straight from the depths of hell...and yet they were under orders from the catholic leadership to do these atrocities...and the leadership was well aware these means of torture were being used.
I agree. I cannot even imagine the mindset it takes to seriously consider and condone torturing and killing innocent people for the shear reason that they don’t believe in the same religion as you do. How in the world did they actually think they could force a genuine heart change on a person who would ascent only to escape the horrors of the torture room? What is even more baffling is that they believed God approved of their actions. You know...the God of LOVE, all LOVE, only LOVE, that they’re pushing now. I am totally convinced it was Satan that filled these people to devise and carry out these plans - because I KNOW FOR A FACT our Heavenly Father would not have.