The Spanish Inquisition?

[Minimalist]

I don't waste all my time fishing, dear.

[Dotard]

Educational video about the Inquisition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oppHeMlaLVM

Hope that helps.

[MilesTailsPrower]

Never mentioned during social studies at school, and I don't really study history in my spare time

[Violet]

How could the spanish inquisition not be mentioned in history studies? It's one of the most barbarically interesting things in Human history

Granted... it's nothing on a Mauler Device... but it even registers my concept of 'brutal'.

[MilesTailsPrower]

Probably gave a bad name to religion.

[Anomalocaris]

Probably gave a bad name to religion.

Huh, no. A thousand years before inquisition the christian church already made a saint of a fanatic who led a mob to corner a female mathematician in the street and then skin her alive for The unforgivable sin of holding seminars on mathematics instead of how to praise god.

I don't think religion has ever had a good name amongst the educated, even with those who might think well of certain of it's tenants.

[Minimalist]

Yeah, Chuck. Ever since the movie came out ( Agora ) it seems I have run into a few xtians who try to deny that it ever happened. Unfortunately for them the deed was recorded by one of their own, Socrates of Constantinople:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/hypatia.html

from Ecclesiastical History,Bk VI: Chap. 15

Of Hypatia the Female Philosopher.

THERE was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions.

On account of the self-possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in coming to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more. Yet even she fell a victim to the political jealousy which at that time prevailed. For as she had frequent interviews with Orestes, it was calumniously reported among the Christian populace, that it was she who prevented Orestes from being reconciled to the bishop. Some of them therefore, hurried away by a fierce and bigoted zeal, whose ringleader was a reader named Peter, waylaid her returning home, and dragging her from her carriage, they took her to the church called Caesareum, where they completely stripped her, and then murdered her with tiles. After tearing her body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a place called Cinaron, and there burnt them. This affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance of massacres, fights, and transactions of that sort. This happened in the month of March during Lent, in the fourth year of Cyril's episcopate, under the tenth consulate of Honorius, and the sixth of Theodosius.

Translation as in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

Praise jebus!

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Probably gave a bad name to religion.

Still does.