Was the Inquisition good?
Was the Inquisition good?
Yes
Yes and no.
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Marketed good executed bad, just like 99.9% of what humanity does.
Toiletheads LARP as inquisitors just to make all rational discussion of integralism impossible. If there's a conversation about reinstating aristocracy, then the atheist/bureaucratist will want to focus the topic onto torture chambers and slave ships for forced converts while the integralist/monarchist will want to focus the topic on kings riding out onto the battlefield to repel the exact same threat that is pouring into Europe unimpeded today.
Partly thanks to Spain ruining many things for everyone.
No
Yes. Most people think the Inquisition targeted silly people like Steven Anderson, in reality it dealt with people using perverted doctrine for insurrection vs the state, proclaiming that marriage is polygamous, free love (sex), etc.
Definitely.
If it burned witches,new agers, and heretics I'm fine with it.
Absolutely.
The Inquisitions were responsible for about 3000 deaths over 400 years. For comparison about 10,000 clergy were killed in the Terrors around the French revolution in a few weeks (by atheists). Two thirds of those deaths were deaths in custody, not executions, which when you think of the conditions in medieval dungeons it's not that surprising. Most burning at the stakes were effigies of people who had died in custody, and the remainder were garroted before the fire was lit.
The inquisition only had jurisdiction over Catholics. If you said you weren't Catholic, they would release you - probably to other authorities who may have done worse to you, but the point is it was about determining whether people were true to the faith.
The Spanish Inquisition was all about figuring out who was really Catholic and who were Jews and Muslims lying about being Catholic so they wouldn't get expelled from Spain by the King.
It has the worst reputation in English speaking countries. Most early English language histories about it were written by British or American protestants - and it's not like they were often at war with Spain, or had a bone to pick with Catholicism.