Religion
Related: About this forumInteresting 1994 piece from the BBC on the Spanish Inquisition
I have no idea how reliable the information here is
Newsjock
(11,733 posts)struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I posted this on your original thread before you deleted it and moved it to the Religion group. I guess I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition here on DU!
By the way, this is the original MP skit.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)It was perpetrated by one of the worst institutions to ever exist.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)than similar prosecutions elsewhere in europe
trotsky
(49,533 posts)How Christian of them to hold back!
humblebum
(5,881 posts)much in the past to be relevant today. Ironic how that works, huh, trotsky?
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)flick. SOS
humblebum
(5,881 posts)such events rather perplexing. Or are you another one of those deniers, who stubbornly holds on to a lost cause in spite of the overwhelming evidence against your position?
rug
(82,333 posts)What institutions do you consider worse?
What institutions do you consider better?
What insttutions do you consider equivalent?
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming your post is the result of consideration and not snark.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Sixtus IV promulgated a bull categorically prohibiting the Inquisition's extension to Aragon, affirming that,
many true and faithful Christians, because of the testimony of enemies, rivals, slaves and other low peopleand still less appropriatewithout tests of any kind, have been locked up in secular prisons, tortured and condemned like relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and properties, and given over to the secular arm to be executed, at great danger to their souls, giving a pernicious example and causing scandal to many.
Sixtus also pointed out that the Spanish Inquisition largely funded itself by siezing the property of those condemned by the Inquisition. Can you say "conflict of interest" boys and girls? I knew you could.
Unfortunately, King Ferdinand had enough local support to ignore Sixtus.
okasha
(11,573 posts)was the Spanish monarchy's secret police. Its informers received a percentage of the property of the victims they turned in, which gave a major incentive to corruption.. The single area in which it could be said to be relatively benign was witchcraft. Unlike the churches of Northern Europe, it taught that witchcraft did not exist and that belief in witches was itself a heresy.
moobu2
(4,822 posts)So Athiest keep your lies to yourself.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Of the Jewish and Muslim population of Spain?
Forced conversion, expulsion, torture, execution. No biggie.