Spanish Inquisiton
- By Amo2
- Denomination Specific Theology
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You say this as though I or anyone else is denying it. I make no excuses for evil acts by any. Nor have I declared that Protestants have not indulged in such atrocities, but to the contrary, have played the role of Babylonian harlot as well as Catholics when entering into illicit political relations with the kings and governments of this world. What I am contesting on this thread, are the numbers of victims involved concerning Roman Catholic persecutions. Not that no Protestants or Orthodoxies either, have never committed such acts.Fox failed to mention the attrocities committed against Roman Catholics, for example the Martyrs of Gorkum, whose feast was this week, who were the victims of shocking cruelty.
Thus, as a Protestant martyrology his work is acceptable, but reading an account of the period of 1500-1900 without reading the Roman martyrology for the same period results in bias.
Martyrs of Gorkum - Wikipedia
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The cruelty was made worse by the fact that, as the Roman martyrology states, “agónem suum, adstrictis láqueo fáucibus, consummárunt” - they were hanged with the noose tied around their jaws. Their bodies were also desecrated, in some cases while they were still alive, since hanging in that vicious manner does not produce a quick or painless death.
Thus the message is we should reject all sectarian violence rather than falsely assuming Protestants or indeed Orthodox are incapable of attroticites and preposterously blaming everything on the Roman Catholic Church.
The point of studying the Spanish Inquisition is not that Catholics are uniquely evil, but humans are capable of great evil even when seeking to do good.
I will look further into this event though, to verify and or clarify the circumstances involved, as this act was committed during the thirty years war I do believe.
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