[ArrogantBustard]

I'm repulsed by the protestant propaganda which you are now repeating.

I expect you to condemn George Washington for owning slaves.

I expect you to condemn the Eighth Air Force and the British Bomber Command for indiscriminately bombing civilian populations.

I expect you to condemn the United States generally for repeated violating treaties with the various Indian Nations.

Shall I go on?

Good bye.

[adam_az]

Pope Sixtus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella that the Inquisitors at Seville in earlu 1482,

"without observing juridical prescriptions, have detained many persons in violation of justice, punishing them by severe tortures and imputing to them, without foundation, the crime of heresy, and despoiling of their wealth those sentenced to death, in such form that a great number of them have come to the Apostolic See, fleeing from such excessive rigor and protesting their orthodoxy."

I guess the Pope was also a Protestant Propagandist?

Torquemada was the prime mover behind the expulsion of Jews from Spain. More Protestant propaganda?

He sponsored book-burneing festivals of the Hebrew Torah. More Protestant propaganda?

You are going to sit in your chair and justify torture as suitable punishment for heresy against Catholic teachings?

Ferdinand wanted the Jews out of his Kingdon, and the inquisition was his method. It was a useful way to wipe out debt from the loans his father took out from Jewish financiers to pursue the marriage/alliance with Castile. Condemnation of the noteholder wiped out the debt.

Are you saying regular "auto de fe" never happened?

None of the examples you provided are anywhere near a parallel to the 350 year inquisition.

Torquemada was a wicked murderer.

Please, go on. Eventually, you'll stick your foot in your mouth so far that you choke on it.