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At some point someone has to expect something Inquisition-like in Spain, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aut
by adolph 4y ago
At some point someone has to expect something Inquisition-like in Spain, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty_Python) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty...
- JetAlone 4y agoNo one ever did, man. No one ever did.
- unity1001 4y agoResult of 500 year old Elizabethan propaganda. Actual historical records show that Inquisition persecution was SO lightweight and tolerant that even ordinary criminals tried to get themselves reclassified as religious offenders to be able to get off lightly.
- yazzku 4y agoYou obviously don't know history, unless 'lightweight persecution' includes torture in your dictionary. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-de-Torquemada https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-de-Torquemada
- Eleison23 4y agoAh, Encyclopedia Britannica - the British Empire, having established the Anglican ecclesial community in defiance of Rome, mortal ancient enemies of the Spanish Empire. I'm sure they have no motive to embellish black legends about the Romish Church and English Catholics like St. Thomas More and William Shakespeare were perfectly safe to practice their faith and attend Popish Masses and priests never needed to hide from British authorities. Yeah, totally unbiased source, that Britannica. God save the King.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThe Encyclopedia Britannica is a U.S. publication, and has been for well over a hundred years.
- afc 4y agoSeems fairly accurate in this case. You can also read about it in Wikipedia anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada You can see all the references in the article (including but not limited to Britannica).
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. We ban accounts that do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005581 for more. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yazzku 4y agoThere are plenty of Spanish references too. I linked to one the general audience here could read.
- _-david-_ 4y agoThe Inquisition had rules around torture. The secular authorities did not.
- sshumaker 4y agoRevisionist history? The Jews who converted to avoid expulsion and (some of whom) were practicing their religion in secret would like a word. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2430792/jewish/The-Spanish-Inquisition.htm https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2430792/jewis...
- Ligma123 4y agoMost of these people never actually dug into anything, but just accept the popular idea that the Inquisition tortured millions. La leyenda negra, is a concept that doesn't reach many people in the anglo-saxon world It's a lost cause.
- cm2187 4y agoThe french revolution killed in a couple of years a high multiple of what the Spanish inquisition killed in over a century. Of all the crimes, massacres and genocides of the last centuries, it probably doesn't even register in the top 200.
- trasz 4y agoYou can’t compare an uprising against internal occupant (French Revolution) with a genocide (Catholic fascists).