Lenny Brenner wrote a book, “The Democrat Party, the Lesser Evil” which he summarized as, “Vote for us, we are not as bad as the Republicans.”
The defense of the inquisition is similar. “They accuse us of millions of deaths, men, women, children burned at the stake.” “We aren’t anything like that, something like a hundred thousand, maybe a little more. Why are you bothered?”
Cognitive dissonance to the nth power: Okay, it happened. But, we are the TRUE church.
Love for those who hate us, not wasted!
You’ll know the TRUE church because it members don’t do anything wrong? I don’t recall that from my Bible study.
Hundred thousand burned? Hah! You wish. The figures I've seen..and based on ACTUAL trial counts mind you... are a few thousand *across Europe over 500 years*. The death penalty was only recommended in 2-3% of cases.
A counting error I can understand and wouldn't quibble about...but when you folks start breathlessly concocting genocides several orders of magnitude beyond what historically happened, yeah, you're darn right we are going to call you on your BS.
You all don't seem to understand that your disinterest in and utter incompetence with the medieval sources means you are subject to being bamboozled and led by the nose by the worst 19th century polemicists.
Read more, get informed, and then come back and we have a decent conversation about it.
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.