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
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)
