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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
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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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