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To: Brumar89 who wrote (291441)	8/29/2002 2:04:11 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The Inquisition began in 1480. The Inquisition Myth, which Spaniards call "The Black Legend," did not arise in 1480. It began almost 100 years later, and exactly one year after the Protestant defeat at the Battle of Mühlberg at the hands of Ferdinand's grandson, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1567 catholic.net "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition," a 1994 BBC/A&E production, Do you think the BBC and or A&E would make up stuff or ignore facts. Discrediting the Black Legend brings up the sticky subject of revisionism. Re-investigating history is only invalid if it puts an agenda ahead of reality. The experts - once true believers in the Inquisition myth - were not out to do a feminist canonization of Isabella or claim that Tomas de Torquemada was a Marxist. Henry Kamen of the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Barcelona said on camera that researching the Inquisition's archives "demolished the previous image all of us (historians) had." Now some guy in 1800 uses flip a coin??? estimation that comes up with tens of thousands and the folks who review the original documents came up with no where near as many. Now no-one had anything against the Catholics. No-one would make up stuff. So as I said you believe your erols user and I'll go with my sources that actually looked at the original records and not the anecdotal speculation counts.