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To: Brumar89 who wrote (291690)	8/29/2002 9:38:44 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I was speaking to the Spanish Inquisition where a myth and propaganda totally distorted the facts. The myth is that tens if not hundreds of thousands were tortured and murdered. Torture was not a part of the Spanish Inquisition. Were a few thousand killed over the hundreds of years, yes and that was hideous. Jack Ryan said if it was not written down it did not happen. In the case of the Spanish Inquisition it was written down and very little happened. You can find online from all kinds of places all kinds of evil things that whomever had and enemy did. es.rice.edu... is a so what to me. If The Spanish Inquisition was so distorted and the distortion and the lies became evident by a detailed evaluation of well kept records. I'd suggest Then all the other inquisition crap is just as likely to be distorted. In the hundreds of years of history the research of who knows reported this and this and this ..... based upon what??? All thru history greedy men used whatever means to get wealth. There was really no communications and no one really knew what was going on. Any who wish to think the an evil conspiracy was going on will. Who can no what happened in the Dark Ages. Those who wish to believe or have a vested interest in disparaging any institution will do so with zeal. Even from your source.... Not the Church but local secular authority. Abuses by local Inquisitions early on led to reform and regulation by Rome, and in the 14th century intervention by secular authorities became common. At the end of the 15th century, under Ferdinand and Isabel, the Spanish inquisition became independent of Rome.