Roman Catholic Papal Inquisition

[Solo]

"Most people have some knowledge of the holocaust, the 6 years of torture and atrocities that the Jews suffered under Hitler and the Nazis during the Second World War. While in no way downplaying the terrible events of the holocaust, such a massacre does not compare to the severity to the torture and murder that took place under Papal authority during the 605 years of the Inquisition. From the beginning of the Papacy, until the present time, it is estimated by credible historians that more than 50,000,000, men and women have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy charged against them by Papal Rome. This Video contains actual photographs of some of the instruments of torture that were used. Since we consider this Video on the Inquisition one of the more important message that we have given, please make it known to others, and if possible post the link on your own website. 7,340 are reported as viewing it on 'Youtube' alone. We would appreciate your comments on the website where it is posted to encourage others."

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[aj830]

50,000,000 people. That is by far the most historically inaccurate overshoot I have ever heard. NO and I mean NO credible historian would ever say that. Your imaginary numbers would have us believe that the Inquisition was worse than the Black Death.

Actual credible historians, not imaginary ones, say the executions carried out by THE GOVERNMENTS at this time were between 3,000 to 5,000 over the entire Spanish Inquisition. Don't fabricate your own history.

 

[Solo]

The following are only small samples of the brutality which was poured out upon "dissident" Christians by the Roman Catholic Church during the Inquisition.

• "From the birth of Popery in 606 to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than fifty millions of the human family, have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of more than forty thousand religious murders for every year of the existence of popery."
  
  -- "History of Romanism," pp. 541, 542. New York: 1871.
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• 50 Million is the number cited by John Dowling, who published the classic "History of Romanism" in 1847 (book VIII, chapter 1, footnote 1). Only seven years after its first printing, it could be said of Dowling’s book, "it has already obtained a circulation much more extensive than any other large volume ever published in America, upon the subject of which it treats; or perhaps in England, with the exception of Fox’s Book of Martyrs."
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• Clark’s Martyrology counts the number of Waldensian martyrs during the first half of the 13th century in France alone at two million. From A.D. 1160-1560 the Waldensians which dwelt in the Italian Alps were visited with 36 different fierce persecutions that spared neither age nor sex (Thomas Armitage, A History of the Baptists, "Post-Apostolic Times - The Waldensians," 1890).
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• The Waldensian were almost completely destroyed as a people and most of their literary record was erased from the face of the earth. From the year 1540 to 1570 "it is proved by national authentic testimony, that nearly one million of Protestants were publicly put to death in various countries in Europe, besides all those who were privately destroyed, and of whom no human record exists" (J.P. Callender, Illustrations of Popery, 1838, p. 400).
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• Catholic historian Vergerius admits gleefully that during the Pontificate of Pope Paul IV (1555-1559) "the Inquisition alone, by tortures, starvation, or the fire, murdered more than 150,000 Protestants." [/*:m:67cef]

Other casualties of the Roman Catholic Papal Inquisition:

• Bertrand, the Papal Legate, wrote a letter to Pope Honorius, desiring to be recalled from the croisade against the primitive witnesses and contenders for the faith. In that authentic document, he stated, that within fifteen years, 300,000 of those crossed soldiers had become victims to their own fanatical and blind fury. Their unrelenting and insatiable thirst for Christian and human blood spared none within the reach of their impetuous despotism and unrestricted usurpations. On the river Garonne, a conflict occurred between the croisaders, with their ecclesiastical leaders, the Prelates of Thoulouse and Comminges; who solemnly promised to all their vassals the full pardon of sin, and the possession of heaven immediately, if they were slain in the battle. The Spanish monarch and his confederates acknowledged that they must have lost 400,000 men, in that tremendous conflict, and immediately after it-but the Papists boasted, that including the women and children, they had massacred more than two millions of the human family, in that solitary croisade against the southwest part of France.
  
  -- Bourne, George, The American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 402-403.
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• The Catholic crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France (from 1209-1229), under Popes Innocent III., Honorius III. and Gregory IX., was one of the bloodiest tragedies in human history. … The number of Albigenses that perished in the twenty years’ war is estimated at from one to two millions.
  
  -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XIV
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• "That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history. The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty, that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that no power of imagination can adequately realize their sufferings." -- W. E. H. Lecky, "History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe," Vol. II, p. 32. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
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• Need I speak to you of the thirty years’ war in Germany, which was mainly instigated by the Jesuits, in order to deprive the Protestants of the right of free religious worship, secured to them by the treaty of Augsburg? Or of the Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about fifteen millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba, by the Spanish papists? In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that papal Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her unfounded claims to religious dominion (citing Dr. Brownlee’s “Popery an enemy to civil libertyâ€Â, p. 105).
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• This was the century of the last religious wars in “Christendom,†the Thirty Years’ War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern Germany almost a desert, ...
  
  -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII.
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• In one word, the church of Rome has spent immense treasures and shed, in murder, the blood of sixty eight millions and five hundred thousand of the human race, to establish before the astonished and disgusted world, her fixed determination to annihilate every claim set up by the human family to liberty, and the right of unbounded freedom of conscience.
  
  -- Popery an enemy to civil liberty, 1836, pp. 104-105.
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• Papal Rome has shed the blood of fifty millions of Christians in Europe!
  
  -- The Roman Catholic Religion viewed in the light of Prophecy and History, New York, Charles K. Moore, 1843, page 60.
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• The best writers enumerate fifty millions of Christians destroyed by fire, and the sword, and the inquisition; and fifteen millions of natives of the American continent and islands; and three millions of Moors in Europe, and one million and a half of Jews. Now, here are sixty-nine millions and five hundred thousands of human beings, murdered by “the woman of the Roman hills, who was drunk with the blood of the saints.†And this horrid list does not include those of her own subjects, who fell in the crusades in Asia, and in her wars against European Christians, and in South America!
  
  -- The Roman Catholic Religion viewed in the light of Prophecy and History, New York, Charles K. Moore, 1843, page 97.
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• There perished under pope Julian 200,000 Christians: and by the French massacre, on a moderate calculation, in 3 months, 100,000. Of the Waldenses there perished 150,000; of the Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesuits in 30 years only 900,000. The Duke of Alva destroyed by the common hangman alone, 36,000 persons; the amount murdered by him is set down by Grotius at 100,000! There perished by the fire, and tortures of the Inquisition in Spain, Italy, and France 150,000. … In the Irish massacres there perished 150,000 Protestants!
  To sum up the whole, the Roman Catholic church has caused the ruin, and destruction of a million and a half of Moors in Spain; nearly two millions of Jews South America in Europe. In Mexico, and , including the islands of Cuba and St. Domingo, fifteen millions of Indians, in 40 years, fell victims to popery. And in Europe, and the East Indies, and in America, 50 millions of Protestants, at least, have been murdered by it!
  Thus the church of Rome stands before the world, “the woman in scarlet, on the scarlet colored Beast.†A church claiming to be Christian, drenched in the blood of sixty-eight millions, and five hundred thousand human beings!
  
  -- W. C. Brownlee, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, 1834, pp. 347-348.
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• These forced baptisms, and the consequent claims which the pope set up over “his slaves,†caused the death of one million five hundred thousand Moors, and on the most moderate calculation, that of two millions of Jews! See Dr. M. Geddes’s Tracts on Popery, vol. i.
  
  -- W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, p. 88.
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• It has been calculated that, from the time of the conquest of Granada until 1609, three millions of Arabs were exiled from Spanish soil; and never have the plains of Valencia, Murcia and Granada recovered the flourishing aspect that they wore when cultivated by their former masters. The decree of 1609 was as fatal to Spain as the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was to France nearly a hundred years later.
  
  -- Williams, Henry Smith, The Historian’s History of the World, vol. 8, p. 259.
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• In 1492, persecution was begun against the Jews, of whom 500,000 were expelled from Spain and their wealth confiscated. In seventy years the population of Spain was reduced from 10,000,000 to 6,000,000 by the banishment of Jews, Moors and Morescoes (“Christianized†Moors), the most wealthy and intelligent of the inhabitants of that country.
  
  -- Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XV.
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• Alexander Campbell, well known religions leader of the nineteenth century, stated in debate with John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati, in 1837 that the records of historians and martyrologists show that it may be reasonable to estimate that from fifty to sixty-eight millions of human beings died, suffered torture, lost their possessions, or were otherwise devoured by the Roman Catholic Church during the awful years of the Inquisition. Bishop Purcell made little effort to refute these figures. (Citing A Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion, Christian Publishing Co., 1837, p. 327.)
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• This great antichristian power robbed the church of its gospel light and plunged the world into the Dark Ages. It put to death and thus took away the lives of from fifty to one hundred millions of the saints of the Most High.
  
  -- Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, 1950, p. 170.
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• Let us keep a sense of proportion. The record of Christianity from the days when it first obtained the power to persecute is one of the most ghastly in history. The total number of Manichaeans, Arians, Priscillianists, Paulicians, Bogomiles, Cathari, Waldensians, Albigensians, witches, Lollards, Hussites, Jews and Protestants killed because of their rebellion against Rome clearly runs to many millions; and beyond these actual executions or massacres is the enormously larger number of those who were tortured, imprisoned, or beggared. I am concerned rather with the positive historical aspect of this. In almost every century a large part of the race has endeavored to reject the Christian religion, and, if in those centuries there had been the same freedom as we enjoy, Roman Catholicism would, in spite of the universal ignorance, have shrunk long ago into a sect. The religious history of Europe has never yet been written.
  
  -- The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIII by Joseph McCabe (an atheist) who lived from 1867 to 1955.
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• 'The church,' says [Martin] Luther, has never burned a heretic.' . . I reply that this argument proves not the opinion, but the ignorance or impudence of Luther. Since almost infinite" numbers were either burned or otherwise killed,' Luther either did not know it, and was therefore ignorant, or if he was not ignorant, he is convicted of impudence and falsehood, â€â€for that heretics were often burned by the [Catholic] Church may be proved from many examples.
  
  -- Robert Bellarmine, Disputationes de Controversiis, Tom. ii, Lib. III, cap. XXII, “Objections Answered,†1682 edition. (Bellarmine was a Roman Catholic.)
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• They [Roman Catholic Jesuits] are accused of securing the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,-- one of the greatest crimes in the history of modern times, which led to the expulsion of four hundred thousand Protestants from France, and the execution of four hundred thousand more.
  
  -- John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, volume VI, p. 325.[/*:m:67cef]

ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBER KILLED BY THE PAPACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND LATER by David A. Plaisted © 2006

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[aj830]

History of Romanism, The American Textbook of Popery,Popery an enemy to civil liberty, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, and Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty really sound like unbiased trustworthy names. All You have done is presented pseudohistorians with their own personal vendetta against the Catholic Church like yourself. Please try and actually research history rather than read fake histories written by biased nonhistorians.

 

[Solo]

History of Romanism, The American Textbook of Popery,Popery an enemy to civil liberty, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, and Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty really sound like unbiased trustworthy names. All You have done is presented pseudohistorians with their own personal vendetta against the Catholic Church like yourself. Please try and actually research history rather than read fake histories written by biased nonhistorians.

....OR purveyors of truth that the Roman Catholics, who fear the pope more than they fear God Almighty, reject because they are not able to know the spiritual things of God because they are not born again, born of God.

Read the entire 84 pages of the document before you make such an elementary statement.

 

[aj830]

....OR purveyors of truth that the Roman Catholics, who fear the pope more than they fear God Almighty, reject because they are not able to know the spiritual things of God because they are not born again, born of God.

Read the entire 84 pages of the document before you make such an elementary statement.

OK. Honestly I don't have the time to read the entire document. But instead of arguing about bloated statistics, what do you think that the existence of the Inquisition proves? That there are sinners in the Catholic Church? Then by all means your right. That sometimes sinners reach positions of authority in the Catholic Church? Been happening since Peter denied Christ three times. But how does this prove or disprove anything?

As I have stated that punishments were carried out by the state and many times the state used the Inquisition to get their desires. Many supposed heretics would beg to be sent to a Church court because the punishment for them there would be something along the lines of a pilgrimage and repentance, compared to the state's incarceration and torture.

As for the Inquisition it was not something unique to Catholic countries. Protestant countries had the same amount if not worse amount of executions for heretics and witches.

As for the numbers, 1 death would be to many, and I plan to do some research on death numbers but I suspect I will not find the numbers at 50 million or any where near that.

 

[ThreeInOne]

The Catholic church has a lot of blood on her hands.
Also, from all the research I've done, Hitler got his orders directly from the Vatican!

 

[jgredline]

The Catholic church has a lot of blood on her hands.
Also, from all the research I've done, Hitler got his orders directly from the Vatican!

hmmm, blood, crusades, pope leo....last I knew the muslims won this war...So did God loose this battle????? :o

perhaps they needed all that blood for their communion services...

 

[ThreeInOne]

perhaps they needed all that blood for their communion services...

:smt043 :smt043 :smt043

 

[aj830]

Also, from all the research I've done, Hitler got his orders directly from the Vatican

The Church did more to save Jewish people than probably any other organization in WWII. Hitler was violently anti-Catholic, he killed thousands upon thousands of priests, religious, and laity of the Church. I would like to see your research because all of mine points to the contrary.