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Vatican Says The Inquisition Wasn’t So Bad
The Vatican said Tuesday that far fewer witches were burned at the stake, and far fewer heretics were tortured during the inquisition than previously thought.
The Inquisition which began in 1231 under pope Gregory IX was a legal procedure to root out non believers, and in later centuries was used by the Roman Catholic authorities to torture non believers, or believers in other Pagan Gods or indigenous religious systems into submission to Catholicism.
The Inquisition wreaked most havoc in Spain where thousands burned at the stake during the 15th and 16th centuries.
While some historians clam that the deaths numbered millions, the Vatican has assembled a collection of low-end estimates, reducing global inquisition deaths to “mere thousands”.
“It takes time to get a perspective on the past,” Vatican spokesman Agostino Borromeo told BIGfib. “And with historical data of this kind, the further ago the events, the easier it is to see that what happened really wasn’t so bad.”
In other news the British National party claimed that only “ten or so,” people died in the gas chambers of WW II, and Tony Blair claimed that the treatment of Iraq prisoners by the coalition wasn’t as bad as many believed.
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