There is a great deal of myth that surrounds the inquistion created and fabricated by the Church's enemies during the Reformation.
Much of it has been debunked and exposed as fraud, exagerration, and fabrication.
The BBC, about 10 years ago, created a documnetary doing just this.
In fact, when the Spanish Inquisition was critically and objectively examined, it was found that most of what we have been led to believe through popularist history was ctually false.
In fact, what they discovered was the Spanish Inquisition was ahead of its time in the ways of judicially protecting human rights, care of prisonors, fairness of treatement and rendering justice.
In fact, the Spanish Inquisition's jails were a model for others to follow for many years to come. They were clean, offered clean water, decent food, clothing and bedding, and a systemtatic and effective hearing process with legal representation for the accused.
In fact, people caught in the secular system were in danger of dying before ever reached trial, which might be never, from bad food and water, disease, etc.
In fact, many would try to force their case to be transferred to the inquisitional system because they were assured of a fair trial in addition to the benefits above. They would get out of the death trap of the secular system.
In addition to all this, the tales of execution, burning at the stake and torture are fabrications and/or exagerations.
The truth is, the protestant inquistions killed and brutally tortured 100 to 1000 times more than all of the Catholic inquisitions put together.
So, if the Spanish Inquisition is holding you back, then there is no real reason for it to hold you back any longer.
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
"The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition," a 1994 BBC/A&E production, .........
The Inquisition had a secular character, although the crime was heresy. Inquisitors did not have to be clerics, but they did have to be lawyers. The investigation was rule-based and carefully kept in check. And most significantly, historians have declared fraudulent a supposed Inquisition document claiming the genocide of millions of heretics.
What is documented is that 3000 to 5000 people died during the Inquisition's 350 year history. Also documented are the "Acts of Faith," public sentencings of heretics in town squares. But the grand myth of thought control by sinister fiends has been debunked by the archival evidence. The inquisitors enjoyed a powerful position in the towns, but it was one constantly jostled by other power brokers. In the outlying areas, they were understaffed - in those days it was nearly impossible for 1 or 2 inquisitors to cover the thousand-mile territory allotted to each team. In the outlying areas no one cared and no one spoke to them. As the program documents, the 3,000 to 5,000 documented executions of the Inquisition pale in comparison to the 150,000 documented witch burnings elsewhere in Europe over the same centuries.
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1112-96/article4.html
And that's just the witch burnings in protestant areas . . . . that is only the beginning . . . .
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