INQUISITION: MYTHS AND FACTS APOLOGETICS

INC-QUISITION

1. INQUISITION MYTHS AND FACTS

2. THE I N C -QUISITION

3. POINTS TO CONSIDER: 1. ANONG KINALAMAN NG INQUISITION SA PANG-UUSIG SA UNANG IGLESIA NOONG UNANG SIGLO; AT IKALAWA, KUNG ANG INQUISITION AY NAGANAP NOONG MEDIEVAL OR MIDDLE AGES AT HINDI NAMAN NOONG ANCIENT TIMES? ANG ANCIENT PERIOD AY NAGTAPOS NOONG BUMAGSAK ANG WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE.

4. 2. ANG MGA KAANIB DAW NG UNANG IGLESIA NI CRISTO ANG MGA NAMATAY O INUSIG SA INQUISITION, KAILAN PA NAGING KAANIB NG INC1914 KAHIT PA ANG "NAUNA" ANG MGA ALBIGENSIANS AT CATHARS NA NANINIWALANG MAYROONG DALAWANG DIYOS? AT MAGING ANG IBANG PROTESTANTE? KAILAN?

5. “The Inquisition provided a means for heretics TO ESCAPE DEATH and return to the community.” (Source : Madden, Thomas F., “The Real Inquisition”)

6. “The church thought these severe penalties were necessary to save the souls of heretics and to prevent the spread of heresy throughout Christendom.” (Source: World History – people and nations, page 23).

7. "The council, especially after its reorganization during the reign of Philip II (1556–98), put the effective control of the institution more and more into the hands of the civil power. After the papacy of Clement VII (1523–34), priests and bishops were at times judged by the Inquisition.“ ( Britanica )

8. “Although heresy was a capital offense in virtually all the states of western Europe, some rulers—for example, the kings of Castile and England—refused to license the inquisition. Even where it did operate—in much of Italy and in kingdoms such as France and Aragon—the inquisition relied entirely on the secular authorities to arrest and execute those whom it named and to defray all its expenses. The money came partly from the sale of the confiscated property of convicted heretics.” (Peters, Edward, Britanica )

9. “More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hands of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.” — Robert Jeffress (an American Southern Baptist pastor) "The number of burnings at the stake during Torquemada's tenure was exaggerated by Protestant critics of the Inquisition."( Ryan, Edward, Britanica )

10. INQUISITION IS NOT ANTI-FEMINIST AND ALSO BANNED THE USE OF TORTURE SOURCE: "Review of The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black"

11. “The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.” (Edward Peters, Inquisition, 1989, p.87) ‘’Taking into account all the tribunals of Spain up to about 1530, it is unlikely that more than two thousand people were executed for heresy by the Inquisition....it is clear that for most of its existence that Inquisition was far from being a juggernaut of death either in intention or in capability. . . . it would seem that during the 16th and 17th centuries fewer than three people a year were executed in the whole of the Spanish monarchy from Sicily to Peru, certainly a lower rate than in any provincial court of justice in Spain or anywhere else in Europe.’’ (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition, 1998, pp. 60, 203) “The number of those condemned for heresy was never very large and has often been exaggerated by Protestant writers.” ( Britanica )

12. Sa katunayan , umabot lamang ng 150,000 ang naprosecute o nalitis dito , at ang mga nahatulan lamang ay nasa mga 3000 hanggang 5000 na katao . Hindi pa lahat doon ay may death penalty(source Data for executions for witchcraft: Levack , Brian P. (1995). The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe (Second Edition). London and New York: Longman, and see Witch trials in Early Modern Europe for more detail.

13. Ayon naman kay Toby Green sa kanyang Inquisition, the Reign of Fear, dahil sa "worrying error of fact" gumamit ang mga Inquisitor ng torture pero ito'y "rare" o bihira lamang .

14. Ayon pa kay Kamen, mas marami pang Katoliko at Witches ang naparusahan ng Spanish Inquisition kaysa sa mga Protestante , sapagkat kakaunti lamang sila sa Spain(ibid, p. 100). Pinatunayan din niya at iba pang mga Scholars at Historians na ang Inquisition ay hindi talaga ganon kabrutal kundi nahaluan lamang ng black propaganda. Ganito din ang pananaw ng Prof. Edward Peters ng University of Pennsylvania na author ng "INQUISITION, 1989".

15. Pope Gregory IX and Pope Lucius III 1184; 1233/ Cathars, Waldensians, Albigensians

16. King Ferdinand II ng Aragon at si Queen Isabella I ng Castile

17. TOMAS DE TORQUEMADA GRAND INQUISITOR CASTILLIAN DOMINICAN FRIAR

18. Pope Sixtus IV granted the PAPAL BULL, “ Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus ”. Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484) complained about the activities of the inquisition in Aragon and its treatment of the conversos. Conversos—Jews and Muslims who pretended to convert to Christianity for political or social advantage and secretly practiced their former religion.

19. POPE SIXTUS IX and the “CRACKDOWN OF ABUSES IN THE INQUISITION’’

20. Ano ang naging ROLE ni POPE INNOCENT III sa Spanish Inquisition? Kabaliktaran po ng sinabihan ng INC1914 troll. Sa katunayan , tinangka ni Pope Innocent III noong 1484 na tumanggap ng mga apela at reklamo sa Roma LABAN SA INQUISITION, pero muling nagbanta si King Ferdinand ng katakot-takot na parusang kamatayan at confiscation sa sinumang gagawa nito na walang "royal permission". (—Kamen, Henry(1998), The Spanish Inquisition: a Historical Revision, Yale University Press)

21. Henry C. Lea (1825–1909) and G. G. Coulton (1858–1947)

22. "The Inquisition was not born out of the desire to crush diversity or oppress people; it was rather an attempt to stop unjust executions. Yes, you read that correctly. Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offence. Rulers, whose authority was believed to come from God, had no patience for heretics". (Source : Madden, Thomas F., “The Real Inquisition”)

23. "One of the most famous inquisitor, Jacques Fournier (the future Pope Benedict XII), who interviewed some 930 suspected heretics during his career, never used torture; he got all the information he needed through skills and not force. He assigned various penalties to those judged guilty, ranging from making a pilgrimage or wearing a cross to exile or imprisonment. Forty-two heretics he turned over to the secular authority for execution. (The Church itself did not execute; when a crime was judged worthy of death, the criminal was turned over to the state with a request for mercy. Since the crime in most such cases challenged secular authority in some way or was even considered high treason, the request for mercy was usually ignored.) (Seven Lies About Catholic History: Infamous Myths about the Church’s Past and How to Answer Them, —Diane Moczar , Tan Books (September 1, 2010), pp.88-89)

24. "The standard account of the Spanish Inquisition is mostly a pack of lies, invented and spread by English and Dutch propagandists in the sixteenth century during their wars with Spain and repeated ever after by the malicious or misled historians eager to sustain “an image of Spain as a nation of fanatical bigots." (Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History—Prof. Rodney Stark)