[daniel1212]

You might be interested in a movie I saw back in the 70s, put out by Bob Jones University, called Flame in the Wind, set during the Spanish Inquisition. It was anything but pretty. The description being, would people choose a system that offered safety, protection and respectability, or Jesus Christ, who offers salvation from sin, and possible torture and death.

I do not see many movies from them any more. The Inquisitions certainly are a worthy subject, though often the numbers can be inflated (a defense of some is seen here ), and early Prots had to unlearn this means of dealing with theological dissent.

[Mark17]

The Inquisitions certainly are a worthy subject, though often the numbers can be inflated

I guess it is like trying to figure out how many people did Stalin have murdered. The answer is, we really don't know, and never will. That there were a substantial number killed in the Inquisitions, is true. No one knows how many. I do not hold present day people responsible for things that happened hundreds of years before they were born, any more than present day whites are responsible for slavery. They are not. I did not study about it much, but I thought the Spanish Inquisition was the only one. Not true. There were a number of them, over hundreds of years. My feelling however, is that in the tribulation period, the Inquisitions will be like Sunday school, compared to the end times killings.