The Evil Spirit of the Inquisition
and Its Backlashes
By Julio Severo
The crimes of the Inquisition were real,
and no honest historian would try to whitewash them. Among honest Catholics,
Pope John Paul 2 and Pope Francis have asked forgiveness for the crimes of the
Inquisition. Conservapedia,
a conservative Catholic platform, condemns the Inquisition.
Yet, Catholic revisionists have, much like
the revisionists of the Holocaust, grossly understated the numbers of its
victims and excused it in every way possible, including by using the expediency
that Protestantism had several “inquisitions” against dissenters. For them, one
crime of Calvin is equal to all the crimes of the Catholic Inquisition.
Other expediency is to allege that the horrors
of the Inquisition were invented by Protestant writers. But the fact is that
the cruelties of the Inquisition were recorded not exclusively by Protestant
historians, but especially by Jewish historians. For example, one of the most
important and extensive books against the Inquisition is the 1,400-page “The
Origins of the Inquisition,” written by the father of the Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He mentions thousands and thousands of Jewish
victims of the Inquisition. Is it necessary to add that there were also non-Jewish
victims?
Anyway, the main Protestant writers against
the Inquisition were Americans who were very supportive of the Jews in their
suffering. It makes no sense to attack Americans who were defending the victims
of the Inquisition.
To understate the horrors of the
Inquisition only helps the enemies of the Christianity who do not blame
Catholicism for the Inquisition, but blame Christianity in general. So it is
necessary to condemn the Inquisition revisionists just as we condemn the
Holocaust revisionists.
The persecution, torture and murder
against heretics backfired in the long run in Catholic nations themselves. For
instance, in Spain and France, where the Inquisition fiercely persecuted
dissenters from the Catholic Church, anti-Catholic movements, which had nothing
to do with Jews and Protestants, rose to power and used the cruelties of the
Inquisition to justify similar attacks on Catholic bishops and priests. That
is, the Catholic French and Spanish people eventually were so enraged over the
crimes of the Inquisition that they extravasated their fury at the Catholic Church.
Catholics who were oppressed under
communist regimes in Poland and other Catholic nations begged for religious
freedom — and were answered by their communist oppressors that their own Catholic
Church did not believe in freedom as a principle. In this point, communists
were right.
In
the 20th century, under the right-wing dictatorship of devout Catholic
Francisco Franco in Spain Protestant churches were outlawed. In the Catholic
Latin America, for centuries Protestants were considered outlaws and criminals,
and Jews were persecuted by the Inquisition. As a reminder of its sad past, Brazil,
the largest Catholic nation in the world, has the Museum of the Inquisition and
the Brazilian state of Pernambuco has an
annual Memorial Day of the Jewish victims of the Inquisition.
Persecution
against Jews and Protestants in Catholic nations was the spirit of the Inquisition.
So revisionists painting a not so wicked or even sanitized Inquisition should
be exposed and condemned.
Intelligent Catholics today, including Pope
John Paul 2 and Pope Francis, have sought to distance themselves from the
horrors of the Inquisition and its evil spirit that dominated Catholic nations
— from Spain to Latin America.
The
important lesson is that Jesus and his apostles never needed and wanted to
punish, torture and murder people who disagreed with the Gospel. His mission
was to preach the Gospel and heal the sick and cast out demons.
The
Inquisition was at the service of Satan, who came to steal, murder and destroy.
And Jesus came to destroy the works of darkness. So the Inquisition and its
works of darkness had nothing to do with Jesus.
With information from The Politically
Incorrect Guide to Catholicism by John Zmirak. Regnery Publishing.
Portuguese
version of this article: O espírito maligno da Inquisição e suas repercussões
violentas
Source: Last Days Watchman
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