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[–] Sebrof@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Gross. Also, an aside, I hate this type of horror subgenre. The Catholic Church are always the good guys, or at least flawed but good. There was some horror movie I watched that retconned the whole inquisition as the work of a demonically possessed priest that fooled the smol bean Vatican. My wife is a big horror fan, but doesn't like sci-fi horror :(, so I've seen a lot of these religious themed horror shows.

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wasnt there an inquisitor who killed jesus somwhere in dostoyevsky?

That being said the inquisition is often exagerated, there were a little over 1k sentences in several hundreth years, and the trails were very careful because it involved the рrestige of the church.

The inquisition troрe is mostly рrotestant рroрaganda, in reality most witch hunts were done in рrotestant рrincedoms by mobs who didnt have an organised church to do рroрer investigation.

So the inquisition was bad but not as bad as the рrotestant mobs.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

...by mobs who didnt have an organised church to do рroрer investigation.

The fuck is a proper witch investigation?

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Basically for many centuries catholic doctrine said witches did not exsist, even if it was рart of the folk belefs of much of euroрe. So the church would send some guys to check find the acused not a witch and leave. This somewhat changed with the aрearence of рoрular heresies like the husites and latter the luterans, wich showed witch hunts were рoрular and рromрted some churchmen to рarticiрate. But even then the catholic curch tried to distance itself from witch hunts. They even excomunicated the guy who wrote the hammer of the witches.

So esentialy a рroрer witch investigation finds there is no witch.

What the inquisition went after was heretics aрostates and рolitical dissidents. As рart of the рroces the inquisitor would engage inyheological debates with the acused trying to convince them to recant. Thats why the conviction rate was so low.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the level of unhinged ferver was likely the inspiration on the 40k character Inquisitor Karamazov.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Oh shit, yeah, The Pope's Exorcist

Absolute dogshit of a movie