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> How much Moorish blood remains in the people of Spain today? There wasn't much to start with, since the moorish conquest didn't displace the people but "ince
by samuel 7y ago
> How much Moorish blood remains in the people of Spain today?
There wasn't much to start with, since the moorish conquest didn't displace the people but "incentivized"(ahem...) people to convert.
> How many conversos did the Inquisitors burn at the stake, generations after their ancestors converted, on the strength of rumormongering by jealous neighbors?
It's hard to know, but I've seen stimates around 3k-5k. Germanic wytchhunts probably had a much higher number of victims. The Inquisition was a pretty bureacratic institution, and it had proper trials with defence lawyers, questioning of witnesses, etc... Inquisitor [Alonso de Salazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_Fr%C3%ADas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_Fr%C3%ADas) for example, saved probably thousands of people by setting high standards in Inquisition trials.
Yes, it was VERY BAD and TERRIBLE, I'm not condoning it, but it wasn't the worse that humanity has seen. By far.
- kragen 7y agoThe Inquisition certainly wasn't the worst thing the humans have done, no. I didn't mean to suggest it was. Its infamous crimes need no exaggeration to earn their prominent place in the pathetic catalog of human vileness, though at times that has been no obstacle to those motivated more by hate for Catholicism than by wisdom, compassion, or personal integrity. But the bare truth is heinous enough. I brought it up because the centuries-long intellectual blight that resulted from it is a salient example of the corrupt fruits of the poisoned tree of state censorship, a tree whose root in European history is that very Inquisition. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397905 for a slightly longer disquisition on that theme.