[aMorePerfectUnion]

The Encyclopedia Brittanica says 32000 were killed under the Spanish Inquisition, which is emphatically untrue. Scholarship based on actual archives of Inquisition activities in Spanish jurisdiction, the actual records of events, show a the far smaller figure.

I'll let the competing scholars battle it out. Brittanica has no axe to grind that I can see.

In the wider context of European affairs of the perios, with the standard practices of torture and general brutality by all parties, Protestants and Catholics alike, the 30 Years War in which 8 million on all sides died, in which entire populations in the new world were enslaved...To harp on Civil and Ecclesiastic proceedings in Spain which varied not in theleas from similar proceedings in other countries, is transparently disingenuous.

But I never made that point. You are not a mindreader, so please do not label me as disingenuous. I am not.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A subject of discussion cannot be divorced from it’s historical context. In the context of the subject matter being discussed your comment remains entirely disingenuous.

[Religion Moderator]

You were not labeled disingenuous, your comments were.

Which is seen as an opinion of the poster.

That is acceptable in the Religion Forum on open threads.

Vigorous debate is common on open threads.