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Body count? How dispassionate and correct. yrs, tom ault
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:04:07 -0800
Terrill Heaps <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>I agree wholeheartedly with Dennis Martin.
>
>I will observe, that with a realistic and historically accurate look
>at the
>number of victims of the inquisition, we have a better basis to
>conclude
>with a degree of probablility, that (considering the population of
>Europe at
>the time of the inquisition) there were more victims who incurred
>punishment
>(for being charged with withcraft) _per capita_ in Protestant Salem,
>Massachusetts in 1692 (with its population at that time), than during
>the
>inquistion. In 1692, Salem imprisioned over 150 people, and executed
>20,
>while 17 died in prison. So, comparing the "Inquisition" to Salem's
>"Court
>of Oyer and Terminer" is, ummm, interesting. So far as the number of
>victims
>_per capita_, it appears that the Protestants of Salem are out in
>front.
>
>;)
>
>Terrill
>
>------------------------
>Dennis Martin wrote:
>
>> Quite frankly I find the tone and content here offensive. The
>>Vatican
>> conference presumably involved scholars working along the same lines
>>as
>> those who have produced a body of revisionist studies on the various
>> inquisitions (Peters, Kamen, Tedeschi and others) over the last
>>three
>> decades. The revisionism was long overdue because of the distorted
>>and
>> exaggerated view of the inquisitions that had become conventional in
>>the
>> 18th and 19th centuries and is now endemic in popular culture.
>> WIthout
>> having seen the papers, why mock the conference or its proceedings?
>> If
>> a conference convoked by one of our professional societies or one of
>>our
>> major universities had announced the publication of its proceedings
>>with
>> similar generalizations, would you not at least have reserved
>>judgment
>> until you had seen the volume? And what does contemporary
>>geopolitics
>> (and ecclesial-politics) have to do with any of this? The joke
>>works
>> only if one asumes that everyone on the list shares the same
>> geopolitical assumptions.
>
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