Once again, most people are wrong.

around lunchtime on Monday, the 28th of June 2004 by Chad

Vox Popoli has a fascinating read about the Catholic Inquisitions from the Middle Ages. Seems that almost everything you have ever learned about what happened, was, well, wrong. Seems the liberal spin machines were in operation with the earliest printing presses.

Compared to other medieval secular courts, the Inquisition was positively enlightened. Why then are people in general and the press in particular so surprised to discover that the Inquisition did not barbecue people by the millions? First of all, when most people think of the Inquisition today what they are really thinking of is the Spanish Inquisition. No, not even that is correct. They are thinking of the myth of the Spanish Inquisition. Amazingly, before 1530 the Spanish Inquisition was widely hailed as the best run, most humane court in Europe. There are actually records of convicts in Spain purposely blaspheming so that they could be transferred to the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition. After 1530, however, the Spanish Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new heresy of Lutheranism. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it spawned that would give birth to the myth.

Find out more information here. Unless you have this thing against knowing the truth, of course…

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June 28th, 2004 at 2:26 pm Add karma

interesting:

Torture was rare and only about 1 percent of those brought before the Spanish Inquisition were actually executed. As one headline read “Vatican Downsizes Inquisition.”
The Inquisition was not born out of desire to crush diversity or oppress people; it was rather an attempt to stop unjust executions.
The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.
Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and given over to secular authorities. Despite popular myth, the Inquisition did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense, not the Church. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.
Innumerable books and pamphlets poured from northern presses accusing the Spanish Empire of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World. Opulent Spain was cast as a place of darkness, ignorance, and evil.

so this ruins Monty Python’s Holy Grail.. phooey!

very interesting none the less.. propaganda being way back then as part of the evil..
well i read it must be true, existed then too!
All of history seems ever changing.. always found it odd as a kid as our outdated history books were proven false.. and encylopedias were useless if more then a year or two old..

So to my Hubbie.,.. do you now realize why I believe & trust nothing?
What is the truth, what can you believe?

That would have been a terrifying time to live.. if you were not religious you were essentially dead..
even by the fairness & kindness of the inquisition.

sigh.

Pirates! Man Your Women! » Skewering Common Knowledge Says:
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:33 pm Add karma

[...] I’ll have a few more examples as time goes on… such as everyone thought the Earth was flat until Columbus came along. I’ve already talked about how everyone is completely wrong about the Inquisition. [...]

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