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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (363485)	2/25/2003 4:14:19 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>> Depends on when and where in history you look at it, I guess. The Inquisition does not define friggin' Christianity. It only happened in one small part of the world, it ended because of other Christians because no reasonable command exists in the Bible, specifically in the life of Christ, to support it.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (363485)	2/25/2003 4:21:19 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Spanish Inquisition was run by the Spanish crown, and eventually shut down by the Pope. Spain tried to expand it to other possessions, like the Netherlands and Genoa, but all resisted it. It was not, in fact, directed against practicing Jews, but against conversos, those who had renounced Judaism and claimed to be Catholic, but who were suspected of infidelity. Jews were expelled, which, though cruel, was not the same as torture. Although there were occassional mob actions against Jews in other parts of Christian Europe, there never was anything like the Spanish Inquisition again, or even before.......