Dear Lady Heron. The First Inquisitor was Moses and in two days he killed more persons (women and children included) than the the various Roman Catholic Church Inquisitions did in three centuries
See? Torquemada was better than Moses. So there! /S
First of all the God of the Bible, for reasons of his own directed the actions of the Israelites in the wilderness and as they entered the promised land. Your response that I quote above proves that you really don't know what you are talking about. Interesting fact, Moses didn't actually enter the land and thus didn't participate in the military actions that Jehovah commanded the Son's of Abraham to do as they entered the promised land.
Still, the RCC has blood on it's hands because the "church" has a task of 1. spreading the gospel and 2. making disciples. The inquisition and other religious activities such as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre are not in keeping with this command.
Can someone please explain to me why (not all but) the vast majority of those interested in "christian unity" are Catholics who really just want protestants to quit their churches and simply join theirs? Why don't they concentrate on the low hanging fruit of the unchurched in the USA, more of them than there are churh going protestants.
So do you support the papal sanction of use of torture and capital punishment against theological dissidents as being Scriptural?