Posted on 07/11/2024 7:22:20 AM PDT by patriot torch
The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman Catholic Church setup for the purpose towards the discovery and punishment of heresy which wielded immense power and brutality in medieval and early modern times. The Inquisitions function was principally assembled to repress all heretics of rights, depriving them of their estate and assets which became subject to the ownership of the Catholic treasury, with each relentlessly sought to destroy anyone who spoke, or even thought differently to the Catholic Church. This system for close to over six centuries became the legal framework throughout most of Europe that orchestrated one of the most confound religious orders in the course of mankind.
Inquisition Procedure
At root the word Inquisition signifies as little of evil as the primitive "inquire," or the adjective inquisitive, but as words, like persons, lose their characters by bad associations, so "Inquisition" has become infamous and hideous as the name of an executive department of the Roman Catholic Church.
All crimes and all vices are contained in this one word Inquisition. Murder, robbery, arson, outrage, torture, treachery, deceit, hypocrisy, cupidity, holiness. No other word in all languages is so hateful as this one that owes its abhorrent preeminence to its association with the Roman Church.
In the Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe describes how the same men who had been both prosecutor and judge decided upon the sentence of heresy. Once an Inquisitor arrived to a heresy-ridden district, a 40 day period of grace was usually allowed to all who wished to confess by recanting their faith.
After this period of grace had finished, the inhabitants were then summoned to appear before the Inquisitor. Citizens accused of heresy would be woken in the dead of night, ordered, if not gagged, and then escorted
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I find it suspicious that newbie “patriot torch” comes up with this post while a cathedral is burning down in France. He is just running defense for mad dog Muslims.
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Now those accusations there are funny, I don’t care who ya are!
Now I know where you are coming from. You hate the Catholic Church so much that you want Rome itself to burn and you would be happy if it was Muslims doing it.
You are probably a bloodthirsty Muslim yourself practicing taqiyya. If you aren't Muslim then you are just another bloody-minded, vicious crypto-leftist.
Same evil atrocities, different day
Not even remotely a comparable metaphor to what we’re talking about.
....of course, and the whole Inquisition thing was simply a work of fiction as well. Got it!
Posts like yours just make the average person feel the love Catholicism exudes and want to go running into their “loving” arms.
Not!!!
Keep up the good work.
I am not Catholic moron. FOAD you leftist freak.
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Is “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” still in your Bible?
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Are the words purgatory, rosary beads, transubstantiation, pope and cardinal still in your Bible, because I can’t seem to find them in any other Bible.
eh, a couple thousand here, a few thousand there, who cares? Who’s counting anyway?
Off with their heads. Stinking heretics anyway! right?
“Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with Church dogma must be burned without pity.”
- Pope Innocent III
Spain was eclipsed by England after all Jews were expelled.
I will agree that the Church usaily did a good job of protecting Jews in Europe.
Why the animosity? sheeeshh
I’m just having a friendly conversation.
It’s not as if your religion has a dark History after all.
Lighten up francis. Or is the preferred pronoun “pope”?
Your correct. I mean it’s not as if the kids cookies were poisoned and he was threatened to be excommunicated. (whatever that means, other than a whole lot of burning and torture)
Such a righteous religion!
Dennis Prager recently wrote that historians, Jewish and Catholic, place the number of executions by the Inquisition at about 5,000.
Not millions. Not even hundreds of thousands.
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I am not Catholic moron. FOAD you leftist freak.
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Calm down francis, we’re just here to have a pleasant conversation. Sheesh!
For you to post this unironically (in light of everything presented to you on this thread) is an admission that you either have no reading comprehension whatsoever, or that you're someone arguing in bad faith. Not a good look, either way.
I’m just having a friendly conversation.
No you're not. You're just someone with an axe to grind, no matter how many times people point out the historical nonsense you keep spouting.
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Dennis Prager recently wrote that historians, Jewish and Catholic, place the number of executions by the Inquisition at about 5,000.
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Well geez Louise, that’s a whole lot better. I mean after all, just to place things in context, remind me, what was Charles Mansons body count?
Dennis Prager’s take on this from just two days ago...
Actually, Spain expelled the Jews in 1492, and then began its rise to prominence.
Although its armada was defeated in 1588, the Spanish Empire didn’t begin its collapse until Napoleon invaded Spain, leading to the loss of most of its colonies.
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