The Inquesition
Ok here I'm going to put a small little chapter that I need a bit of help with...As you can see it is about The Inquesition...I need to see if anyone knows anymore forms of Torture that befell these people during this bloody time The Inquisition was an institution of the church for a good stretch of time [and is still going on today to some effect]. It was developed to stem "heresy", i.e., any people who thought differently that the church. The Inquisition was zealously carried out by Generals, priests, and monks. And oh yes, they had the support of the secular authorities. What you don't know is that the Dark Ages were dark because the papacy was at the height of its monstrous glory. Ruling over kings and queens and encouraging recusancy towards any ruler that did not bow to the church.
The Church have tortured and killed for centuries. These are disgusting crimes
that are sickening to even list, but thousands, maybe millions, endured these for the gospel's sake. If YOU were before the Inquisition and they wanted you to say Jesus
is a piece of bread, would you do it? Many people held out for what they believed in. They resisted to the savageness of the church. Here are a just
a few of the tortures they went through--
Skin flayed off of head, face and body
Nipples pulled off
Fried alive in pans
Bound to pillar head down and roasted
Mouth slit back to ears
Crucified upside down
Put in cauldrons of boiling oil
Thrown out of windows upon upward facing spears
Bodies gored through mouths with pikes
Arms cut off
Torturous slow burning e.g., burn soles of feet, then up to ankles, mid-calf, etc. until dead
Bellies burnt until bowels fell out
Women stripped, hung from tree by their hair and scourged
Tourniquet placed on head and twisted until eyes came out
Ears bored out
Tongue cut out
Set down (by pulley) into a fire by degrees
Thrown to dogs
Hung up by the heels and choked with smoke
Smothered in caves on mountains
Hearts pulled out, which the papists gnawed with their teeth.
Some roasted upon spits over a soft fire
Some had their bowels pulled out
A smith had his brains beaten out on his anvil with a hammer
Some had sharp instruments forced under their nails and other body parts
Some racked until their bowels broke out
Some had their throats cut with butcher knives
Knocked on the head with axes
Naked women left hung up by one leg on trees until they died
Some slain and their body parts set on stakes for 30 miles stretches
Some had their noses and breasts pulled off with red hot pinchers
Some had their flesh torn with the claws of wild animals
Murdered in a church during sermon
Some hanged by one foot, their hands and breasts in the water
Some hung up by one hand with weights of lead at their heels
Two tied together and slain
Some were torn in pieces by horses
A legion of soldiers cut some to pieces with swords
Some had boots of boiling oil put on their legs over a small fire.
Some hung up on trees by the middle til they died of hunger
Women's bellies ripped up and their children trod underfeet
Just to name a few....Remember, love thy neighbor......
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