The Horrors of the Inquisition and Its Modern Advocates
By Julio Severo
As perfidious as to commit a crime is to excuse,
understate or deny it.
Other pro-Inquisition statements by him are exposed here.
If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is
correct, then Protestants are liars, because they have been saying about the
horrors of the Inquisition for five centuries.
If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is
correct, then Jews are liars, because they have been saying about the horrors
of the Inquisition for more than five centuries.
If everything Olavo says about the Inquisition is
correct, then Pope John Paul II is a liar, because he compared the Inquisition to
communism and Nazism. In fact, he asked forgiveness for the Inquisition’s
crimes.
Speaking to cardinals on the Inquisition in 1994, the
pope said that confessing institutional sin would be a prominent part of the
Jubilee year 2000. “How can we be silent about so many kinds of violence
perpetrated in the name of the faith?” he asked, specifically mentioning
“religious wars, courts of the Inquisition, and other violations of the rights
of the human person.” He compared them to “the crimes of Hitler’s Nazism and
Marxist Stalinism.”
In the pope’s place, Olavo and a few radical Catholics
promoting a historical revisionist view of the Inquisition would require
Protestants, Jews and Pope John Paul II to ask forgiveness for their “fictional
inventions” against the Inquisition.
Communism and Islam, which committed and commit major
crimes against humankind, thrive on historical revisionism. How can a Brazilian
movement that calls itself conservative have this kind of dishonest existence?
The right path for Catholic conservatism in Brazil is
to recognize the Inquisition’s horrors and to confess institutional sin, as Pope
John Paul II did. Such an admission would prevent pro-family and pro-life
Catholic unity with evangelicals and Orthodoxies from breaking down because of
an irrational and deranged adherence to an institution that did everything the
devil loves (to kill, steal and destroy) and did nothing the Lord Jesus
commanded (to love sinners and preach the Gospel).
The wrong and wicked path is to imitate communists and
Islamists and advocate historical revisionism. Such revisionism has nothing to
do with authentic conservatism. To excuse or understate the Inquisition’s
horrors has nothing to do with real Christianity and it represents an attack on
Jews and Protestants. It also represents an attack on a Catholic Church that
since Pope John Paul II has distanced itself from the Inquisition and sought a
platform to defend life and family, not torture, killings and human rights
violations.
How can a Brazilian “conservative” movement that calls
itself pro-life stand strong against the horrors of the abortion industry and
communism when it denies, excuses or understates the Inquisition’s horrors and makes
liars of its Jewish and Protestant victims?
What kind of Brazilian “conservative” movement is this,
where a man calling himself its head does nothing more than claim “the
Inquisition was a fictional invention” and revile
evangelical and catholic conservatives disagreeing with his personal views?
Portuguese
version of this article: Os horrores da Inquisição e seus
modernos defensores
Source: Last Days Watchman
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