I'm sorry, my butt hurts and I can't be bothered to quote your post, dqualk. Just know that I am responding to you.
1. There was more than one Inquisition and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
2. You cannot excuse the Catholic church from any responsibility in witch hunts because "ignorance was rabid" (or however you horribly misspelled rampant). These people were not only ignorant, they were assholes. Have you ever read the Malleus Maleficarum? There is no fucking way witch-hunters believed that bullshit, yet they killed people solely on the "knowledge" this book held. They wanted to find and kill witches, whether real or imagined. After reading that epic failure, I have no doubt of that fact.
1. There was more than one Inquisition and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
2. You cannot excuse the Catholic church from any responsibility in witch hunts because "ignorance was rabid" (or however you horribly misspelled rampant). These people were not only ignorant, they were assholes. Have you ever read the Malleus Maleficarum? There is no fucking way witch-hunters believed that bullshit, yet they killed people solely on the "knowledge" this book held. They wanted to find and kill witches, whether real or imagined. After reading that epic failure, I have no doubt of that fact.