Interesting 1994 piece from the BBC on the Spanish Inquisition

[struggle4progress]

I have no idea how reliable the information here is

[Newsjock]

1. I wasn't expecting that!

[struggle4progress]

2. .

[longship]

3. Interesting 1970 piece from the BBC on the Spanish Inquisition

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]

5. +

[Dawson Leery]

4. The inquisition was real.

It was perpetrated by one of the worst institutions to ever exist.

[struggle4progress]

6. the film argues that the spanish inquisition was more benign

than similar prosecutions elsewhere in europe

[trotsky]

10. Yeah, maybe they "only" killed 5000 people.

How Christian of them to hold back!

[humblebum]

12. And the millions killed by atheist groups in the 20th century are usually considered too

much in the past to be relevant today. Ironic how that works, huh, trotsky?

[skepticscott]

14. Yawn

flick. SOS

[humblebum]

15. For one who depends so much on empirical evidence, I find your dismissal of

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]

13. Let me understand you.

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]

7. Believe it or not, the Pope tried to stop the spread of the Spanish Inquisition

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 people—and still less appropriate—without 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]

9. The Spanish Inquisition

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]

8. (proof) The Holocaust Never Happened either

So Athiest keep your lies to yourself.

[struggle4progress]

16. ?

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Um, other than the fact that this was the enforcement arm of the suppression

Of the Jewish and Muslim population of Spain?

Forced conversion, expulsion, torture, execution. No biggie.