Catholic Inquisition and The Torture Tools

[joe ross]

:tsk

Catholic Inquisition and The Torture Tools
http://www.youtube.com/v/Rx8PdvOELvY

[seashell]

That Video does not list where it got it's information and who did the research. Here is some information from the National Review and it lists the Researcher Thomas F. Madden

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/madden200406181026.asp

Now at last the scholars have made their report, an 800-page tome that was unveiled at a press conference in Rome on Tuesday. Its most startling conclusion is that the Inquisition was not so bad after all. 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."

[joe ross]

hi seashell....
That Video does not list where it got it's information and who did the research. Here is some information from the National Review and it lists the Researcher Thomas F. Madden

well what i do know is the real soft spoken man in the video is Richard Bennett, a former Roman Catholic Priest. he loves the lord deeply.....heres there website
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/

[antsinmypants]

Now at last the scholars have made their report, an 800-page tome that was unveiled at a press conference in Rome on Tuesday. Its most startling conclusion is that the Inquisition was not so bad after all. 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."

I'm sorry, but I really, REALLY cannot swallow that. The whole Inquisition started with various pogroms within Europe, then the Crusades and worked towards the whole 'Inquisition' itself which took place in all Spanish held territories (not Just Spain and Portugal)..

I'm not suprised really that this isn't "so open", but the history just cannot be glossed over.

[Buzzardhut]

Its most startling conclusion is that the Inquisition was not so bad after all. :lol2
and there never was a Holocaust :ohno

[go~in~peace]

I thought the bloody inquisition was perpetrated by the Spanish Kingdom?

[antsinmypants]

Uh actually no.. It got started before that.. and it kind of spread everywhere but 'stuck' in Spain/Portugal and Spanish territories.

...Historians distinguish between four different manifestations of the Inquisition: the Medieval Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition.

Because of its objective, combating heresy, the Inquisition had jurisdiction only over baptized members of the Church (which, however, encompassed the vast majority of the population). Non-Christians could still be tried for blasphemy by secular courts. Also, most of the witch trials were held by secular courts...
Here's a breif overview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition).

[Buzzardhut]

Unfortunately, most non Christians, mostly atheists, try to attribute regenerated believers with these religious crimes not realizing it was Romanism that spawned it all.
The true Christians were being tortured and killed as well.

[Buzzardhut]

Uh actually no.. It got started before that.. and it kind of spread everywhere but 'stuck' in Spain/Portugal and Spanish territories.

Here's a breif overview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition).
:lol2 Rome tagged a hoax clause on that page :ohno

[go~in~peace]

Unfortunately, most non Christians, mostly atheists, try to attribute regenerated believers with these religious crimes not realizing it was Romanism that spawned it all.
The true Christians were being tortured and killed as well.

I don't know who you mean by true Christians but I know the followers of Luthers in Germany as well as the Anglicans in England tortured and executed many catholics and non-catholics for religious reasons.