Just one piece of information, no desire to debate:
It is the most phenomenal misrepresentation of all the misrepresentations engineered by illustrious characters like William of Orange or John Foxe. The Inquisition was a very organized institution, much better regulated than any other at the time, and in which religion remained a matter of religion and not of the State. It dealt with crimes that still are today, such as those known as crimes against honesty: pimping, paedophilia, white slavery, counterfeiting of coins and documents? It had a very wide field of work. The fact of constituting itself as an organized, regulated and judicially stable way of dealing with religious dissidences prevented the massacres that these provoked on the Protestant side. The Inquisition judged a total of 44,000 cases from 1560 to 1700, resulting in approximately 1,340 deaths. And that's the whole story. Calvin sent 500 people to the stake in just 20 years for heresy. When one looks at the barbarities that happened on the Protestant side, it is that there is no color, among other things because the calculation of deaths that Protestant intolerance could provoke can only be done approximately since in most cases there was no trial, no lawyers, no right to defend oneself, it was by the barbaric procedure of lynching, nothing more. This never happened in Catholic areas, ever. Without going any further, it is estimated that in the
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, in the summer of 1572, three times more people were killed for religious reasons in France than in the three centuries +- of existence of the Inquisition in Spain.
Terco_Viejo, a humble agnostic.