It’s fascinating to see that while historians have completely #disproven the old #BlackLegend about the #SpanishInquisition and corrected the number of people prosecuted and executed by several orders of magnitude, Clown World is still trying to present what was a very minor and non-noteworthy exercise in successfully maintaining the social order into one of the worst historical iniquities in human #history.
Beyond its endless sunshine and sandy beaches, Spain has a dark history that has stained the nation to this day. For hundreds of years, people were burned at the stake, stretched to death, or otherwise tortured for the sole reason that they were not Catholic.The Spanish Inquisition is considered to be one of the most shameful and grotesque periods in Roman Catholic history. According to some modern estimates, around 150,000 people were prosecuted for various offences during the three-century duration of the reign of terror, of whom between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed after enduring some of the most spine chilling acts of torture imaginable.
Extensive archival material contains accounts of torture victims’ cries and descriptions of funeral pyres, atrocities which continue to horrify historians to this day. The horrors of the Inquisition are among some of the most sadistic acts of terror in history, which extended into every area of Spanish society and almost every corner of its global empire.
This is total historical nonsense. Even if we assume the very worst of it, the Spanish Inquisition was less lethal than #children’s #bicycles are today. The #Inquisition prosecuted 421 people per year for the #crime of pretending to be something they were not in order to #feign #loyalty to the Spanish crown; just last year, the #British crown prosecuted 419,000 people in #England and #Wales alone, many of them for simply #expressing their #opinion about the migrant #invasion of their country.
Modern Britain is more than three orders of magnitude worse than the Spanish Inquisition, and that was prior to the establishment of the #KeirStarmer #regime. This is an indisputable historical fact.
And as for those 3,000 to 5,000 executions over a period of 356 years, during the 38-year reign of the King of England, Henry VIII, as many as 72,000 people are estimated to have been executed.
