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Sunday 23 May 2010

Lessons from Muslim Spain by Chris Hewer

http://stethelburgas.org/civicrm/event/info?id=76&reset=1

Chris Hewer is always entertaining and knowledgeable.

He could not however answer the question of how and why the Inquisition started and suggested that it may have been an over-solicitous and Christian concern over the souls of Jews and Muslims.

I have a little theory and is simply this. Questioning the divinity of Christ is easy-peasy. When Isabelle and Ferdinand won back Spain from the Moors, I can imagine the Jews and Muslims cheekily questioning Christ's divinity and asking all sorts of unanswerable questions about the Holy Trinity.

That was what led to the Inquisition: to teach these pesky Jews and Christians a lesson.

The Inquisition was totalitarianism writ large. Not only do you have to outwardly convert, we have to be satisfied that you inwardly convert and believe in a lie, just like we do ...

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