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A Woman Rides the Beast quote of Canon Llorente, Secretary to the Inquisition in Madrid, that "in Spain alone the number of condemned exceeded 3 million, with about 300,000 burned at the stake."
Especially criticized is my statement that millions of true Christians were
killed by Rome in the 1,000 years before the Reformation.] =A0
Answer: You refer to "the Spanish branch of the Inquisition"-an admission
that there were other inquisitions also. In all, the various inquisitions lasted
about 600 years-and I didn't even deal with them. You don't like my figures
for Spain. I didn't even mention the 30,000 "secret Jews" (i.e., Jews
accused of only pretending to convert) killed in Spain (See The International
Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2004). The Spanish Inquisition went as far as Holland,
where more than 30,000 were killed.My wife's ancestors were Dutch Mennonites
who fled the Inquisition in Holland. In France, 70,000-100,000 Huguenots were
slaughtered in one event known as St. Bartholomew's massacre, beginning the
night of August 24, 1572, and lasting about a week. The Pope (Gregory XIII)
had a medal struck of an angel exterminating the Huguenots with a sword and
commissioned the Italian artis= t Vasari to paint a mural in commemoration,
a painting that still exists in the Vatican. Another 200,000 or more Huguenots
were killed in other massacres, and from 500,000-1,000,000 fled France. We have
found their descendants as far away as South Africa. =A0 The "Inquisition"
would have to include even the Crusades, during which man= y thousands of Jews
were killed all across Europe and on into the "holy land.= " The first
pope to inaugurate the Inquisition (at one stretch, 80 popes in a row continued
to sponsor it) was Innocent III, who, in what he called "the crowning achievement"
of his papacy, wiped out the city of Beziers, France. Estimated fatalities range
from 20,000 to 60,000. It took the popes about a century to exterminate the
Albigenses, of whom Peter de Rosa, a Catholic (Vicars of Christ, p. 73), says
that "hundreds of thousands" were put to death in southern France-to
say nothing of the Waldensians of northern Italy, the extermination of the Hussites-and
on and on it goes. I'm surprised at the time and effort exerted in selective
research by Porvaznik to bring the figures of those killed in the Inquisitions
down to = a few thousand, when there are single events such as the slaughter
of Beziers or St. Bartholomew's massacre, etc., that are so well established
and involve hundreds of thousands. What is your point?
It is disappointing that neither from you nor from Porvaznik have I heard a word of remorse for the horrors perpetrated by your Church down through the ages, to say nothing of the innocent lives destroyed by the thousands through the pedophilia presently in the news. You ought rather to mourn its wicked record than to persist in defending a church that is "drunk with the blood of the saints"!
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