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To: TimF who wrote (143954)	4/5/2002 8:15:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580050

The government of Spain really ran the inquisition. Rome nominally ordered it after the Spanish Monarchy made the request, and Rome rubber-stamped the appointments for the top Inquisitor, but everything was under the Monarchy's control. During the inquisition's bloodier early days Sixtus IV protested the torture but the pope's complaints didn't change anything. (This shows not only that the monarchy wanted the torture to continue, it also shows how the state, and the monarchy was growing in power against the church. A couple of hundred years earlier and a european king probably would have felt the need to follow the church's line.) Tim, my original point to Z was that the Spanish Inquisition was one example of the Christians condemning other religions, and saying that they were the chosen few. In other words, assuming the Jews and Christians have been condemned as infidels in the Koran, Islam is not alone in that practice. As for the pope, he didn't disagree with the intent of the inquisition which was to purify the Spanish population of any other religion other than Catholism, but rather he may not have liked some of the Inquisitors' methods; methods I might add that the Catholic church practiced just a few years before. ted