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The inquisition was effectively a judicial body. They were religious representatives and burned witches for questionable reasons, but their… questioning did for
by loup-vaillant 3y ago
The inquisition was effectively a judicial body. They were religious representatives and burned witches for questionable reasons, but their… questioning did force quite a few false confessions if I recall correctly.
This has little to do with your Sunday Priest.
- psunavy03 3y agoSee above. What people did 400 years ago is not relevant to my point about how things are today.
- elevatedastalt 3y agoIt is. Because the point GP / OP are making isn't that we are doing inquisitions today, but rather that the human psychology behind confessions has long been wielded as a tool.
- loup-vaillant 3y agoOK, back on topic then: do you even dispute the main point, that today false confessions are being coerced out of suspects in Western precincts?