The Spanish Inquisition calls to mind cruelty, injustice, and religious persecution, but in On the Spanish Inquisition, Maistre shows us that the facts are quite different. So far from being cruel, he says, "nothing in the universe can really be more calm and gentle-more impartial and humane-than the tribunal of the Inquisition." Over the course of five letters, Maistre patiently reveals the Inquisition as it actually was, arguing that it was moderate, necessary, and in the fullness of time, a shield against the far bloodier and more destructive French Revolution.
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>>18539366>nothing in the universe can really be more calm and gentle-more impartial and humane-than the tribunal of the Inquisition.How? People were denounced without evidence, tortured to confess without being told what they were accused of, and then not allowed to confront their accuser. Also the target of the inquisition was not the jews, that shows a lack of understanding of its fundamental nature. The inquisition were anti-heresy police and therefore had no authority to arrest non-christians. The targets were conversos. The inquisition was an arm of oppression against christians whose ancestors had been non-christian.
>>18539366>nothing in the universe can really be more calm and gentle-more impartial and humane-than the tribunal of the Inquisition.Enforcing any form of Christianity is not humane.
Spain under the Habsburgs was a very effective totalitarian state where religious orthodoxy was enforced at swordpoint and no free or individual thought was allowed. It was like 16th century Iran.
>>18539512A common trick to ferret out fake conversos was by inviting one to a Christian family's home and offering them a meal of pork (nearly every Spanish family raised pigs in those days). If they refused to eat it, it proved their conversion was insincere.
>>18539366>Leonid RadvinskyThis kike vermin thankfully died of cancer recently.
>>18539604many people were subject to torture just from an unsubstantiated claim of "I saw X refuse pork and/or light candles on the sabbath" that alone was enough to get someone arrested and tortured for a confession. Once a confession was obtained under torture it could not be retracted later. Roughly 1/3 of all people arrested by the inquisition in its 300+ year history were subject to torture and every single person subject to torture confessed and was found guilty. What a coincidence!
>>18539604>you should get tortured to death for not eating porkso i guess the romans was right about killing jesus
