The thousands often quoted refer to the Spanish Inquisition, but that was only a small part of the persecutions of non-Catholics by the RCC. The main reference for the high numbers killed by the RCC over 600 years is
this study by David Plaisted which includes causes other than the Inquisition.
Cripplegate, a popular Protestant blog says:
However, if the term is used in a broad senseto represent all Roman Catholic activity against non-Catholicsthen the numbers rise dramatically. If the historian includes forms of torture andkilling that did not involve a formal trial, along with religious wars and other forms of Catholic violence enacted againstProtestants and other non-Catholics (in areas outside of Spain and Portugal), then one can easily speak in terms of millions of peoplewho were killed.
And they mention Plaisted's study:
David Plaisted acknowledges that reality in his study: namely, that the really big estimates of Protestants killed by the papacy throughout Europeanhistory necessarily include those who died in religious conflicts like the Thirty Years War.
50 million Christians and 17 million Jews and others over 600 years is quoted in various places, such as
The History of Romanism by John Dowling, which is online.
The Inquisition is still going on in some Catholic countries, where the local Catholics persecute and murder the local Protestants. A few years ago there was a report of this among a rural Indian population of Mexico. I'll have to look it up.
And it was startling to me to hear about Garibaldi's discovery of people being tortured in dungeons in Rome when he conquered it, long after the supposed end of the official Inquisition.
So, you think the Roman Inquisition ended many centuries ago? Think again
When Garibaldi’s armies marched into Rome in 1848, it was found that the Roman Catholic Church was walling-up, burning alive and also lowering victims — heretics and liberals, into giant ovens.
The Vatican Church dungeons, discovered there, were opened up for the public to see (interestingly similar to what was done after WW2 when the Nazi camps were also opened for public viewing?)
Although I have seen, in a film, pictures of just what was displayed to the public, I can’t find anything on a www image search.
Has there been an attempt to delete these events, and the photographic record, from history?
These events and the pictures are detailed in a film by Adulum Productions called ‘Tares Among the Wheat’ (follow link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wep1KFb3wns
The film also details the discovery that the Inquisition was still in full operation at the Convent of Santo Domingo in Mexico, exposed by H Grattan Guinness in his bookCity of Seven Hills, (1891).
The evidence was presented in an English Baptist Church publication called The Sword and the Trowel’, spring edition 1873 (see link below)
The article was written by the ‘Prince of Preachers’ Mr Charles Spurgeon, minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, in South London.
The Sword and the Trowel is still in publication — although todays reverent gentlemen at the Metropolitan Tabernacle are peculiarly reluctant to discuss this and other related matters.
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