“Spanish Inquisition (3-5 thousand dead) hundreds of years ago”
You need to research that a bit more, FRiend. :)
“Spanish Inquisition (3-5 thousand dead) hundreds of years ago”
“You need to research that a bit more, FRiend. :)”
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Based on modern historians research of actual Inquisition records (and they were meticulous record-keepers), the documented numbers are indeed within the 3000 to 5000 range. The higher numbers that are typically cited (some even exceeding the entire population of Europe during that time!)are imaginary products of Reformation-era polemics.
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The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0008.html
Actually he’s in the ballpark with those numbers.