To: pgyanke
You're joking right? You're justifying the Inquisition and all that?
To: Dante Alighieri
I'm not joking. Read the real history. There were abuses but nowhere near what has been alleged. Most of the abuses were not by the Church but by political leaders who used the process against their detractors. Although I admit there were abuses by representatives of the Church...
26 posted on
08/17/2006 11:59:17 AM PDT by
pgyanke
(Christ embraces sinners; liberals embrace the sin.)
To: Dante Alighieri; pgyanke
You're joking right? You're justifying the Inquisition and all that?I don't know what you mean by "all that", but the inquisitions, as opposed to the myths about them, were good things for the most part.
The Real Inquisition
38 posted on
08/17/2006 12:52:43 PM PDT by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
To: Dante Alighieri
You're joking right? You're justifying the Inquisition and all that?
Find me a court in Europe that produced less death sentences than the Inquisition over the same time period and then maybe we can have a rational discussion about it.
47 posted on
08/17/2006 1:20:15 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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