Wherein Bill Donohue defends the Inquisition

The new Cosmos that premired on Sunday has Bill Donohue upset. He claims the section on Giordano Bruno stating that the church used to Inquisition to try and punish him is anti-catholic propaganda.



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The ignorance is appalling. “The Catholic Church as an institution had almost nothing to do with [the Inquisition],” writes Dayton historian Thomas Madden. “One of the most enduring myths of the Inquisition,” he says, “is that it was a tool of oppression imposed on unwilling Europeans by a power-hungry Church. Nothing could be more wrong.” Because the Inquisition brought order and justice where there was none, it actually “saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.” (His emphasis.)

The Inquisition was all friendly eh?

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