2006-07-13 13:53:08 · 12 answers · asked by AuralSects69 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
A number in the Multi thousands but impossible to discern exactly. "The" Inquisition began in earnest in the 11th or 12th century and supposedly taperd off with the end of the infamous Spanish Inquisition.but instances of both torture and official programs still may be observed among both Protestant and Catholic; Notably in Africa.
2006-07-13 16:50:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmm - on record 15? which record? Because I went to a Catholic elementary school and they taught that they inquisition killed thousands in Europe (maybe only "hundreds" on record), but it was a bad time to be accused of not believing in the "true faith."
Don't forget the crusades...bad time to be anything but a Christian. And best not to be too smart. (You might not be a Christian if you were smarter than everyone else.)
Witchhunts started during the crusades, I believe, when the Christians were bound and determined to stamp out the pagan ways of the original inhabitants of the British Isles and Ireland.
The Puritans brought witch-hunts with them to the Americas.
2006-07-13 21:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by westcoastlib 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Estimates range from 500,000 to over 9 million. The lower numbers may not take into account those who died in the prisons; the higher numbers may take into account deaths not atributed to the Inquisition and Burning Times.
2006-07-13 23:25:06 · answer #3 · answered by Dark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many Christians did the Romans torture and persecute during the Empire?
2006-07-14 01:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by sollflower 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Estimates are impossible, since in some cases entire towns were wiped out, leaving no one to bear witness against the atrocities.
And what makes you think witch-hunting is in our past?
2006-07-13 20:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thousands! And most of them were women who were healers whom the church blamed for the downfall of Man from Eden and for using witchcraft and thus worshipping the Devil!
2006-07-13 21:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows for sure--they didn't keep accurate records, but there were thousands, if not millions. One town in Germany had everyone killed except one person.
2006-07-14 09:19:01 · answer #7 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thousands in Holland alone so many thousands in Europe ,Mary tudor was also at it not only the Spanish,hundreds in America ,and they are still at it planning to kill billions this time.
they just changed the labels.
2006-07-13 21:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even one is too many, but all faiths are guilty of it.
2006-07-13 20:58:07 · answer #9 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only the ones that had the audacity to disagree with them.
2006-07-13 23:08:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋