Cortez's use of Holy Water in baptizing infants. Hernán Cortés, Letters – available as Letters from Mexico translated by Anthony Pagden. You can go down to the library, do a database search (Lexis Nexis would probably have it). These are actually literal letters Cortés sent to the Vatican, asking for guidance in baptizing infants he would murder.
Pizarro's identical use of baptism pouches for slaying children under seven. Conquest of the Incas, John Hemming, 1973.
Both of these men were inquisitors acting on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church.
2007-02-02 06:52:43 · 6 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is in regard to the calls for sources on this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgDuDxawmRLZiroL9MD6TCfsy6IX?qid=20070202113144AAi6s9N
Apparently people still think inquisitors were angels.
2007-02-02 06:53:30 · update #1
that's not surprising. the words "inquisition" and "inquisitor", at least when used in connection to the RC church, seem to be synonymous with "atrociously evil."
2007-02-02 07:52:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again, it is hard to take you seriously when you can't tell an inquisitor from a conquistador.
And, yes, I DO have to cite sources for the Holocaust, because few believe me when I mention the millions of Catholics that were killed.
2007-02-02 15:29:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the Inquisitions ended centuries ago and there are still those alive who lived through the Holocaust, citing sources for Inquisition seems more necessary as there are no eyewitnesses.
The Inquisitions and the Holocaust do share one thing: they are, perhaps, the best self-documented atrocities in history.
2007-02-02 14:58:29 · answer #3 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your original post got the historical facts wrong-your own sources show that- and you questioned whether others were aware of history.
2007-02-02 15:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are missing your sense of irony this afternoon. Read the responses again. Nooone is justifying what was done.
2007-02-02 14:58:05 · answer #5 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it doesn't fit into their "facts" it must be wrong and if it is proved to be "fact" then it was not the true way.That's their excuse and they are sticking by it.Denial is such a wondrous thing.
2007-02-02 14:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋