inquisition
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Jun 18
Today's new word are pretty horrible ones as to Abacinate someone is to blind them in a particularly brutal, painful method of torture. It was a common practice in Arab nations and among medieval inquisitions.
Abacination is not...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
13 May 17
The Bible carries the notorious line ‘Thou shall not suffer a witch to live’ a line often used to justify the arrest, trial, torture, persecution and execution of suspected witches in Europe and America through to the 18th...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
14 Oct 15
2015 – Mammoth – Robinson’s Press – Spoiler alerts
A story covering more than 30 years from 1382 to 1414. During the rise of the Spanish Inquisition, a group of heretical radicals wage a war of attrition against their hard-line...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Oct 15
Mammoth / Robinson’s Press 2015 – Spoiler alerts.
An inquisitor serving the Spanish Conquistadors interrogates an Inca tribal chief, hoping to find the location of the fabled El Dorado, a city of gold. The Chieftain has not given...
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Secret
@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
28 Feb 11
Why Christians are largest population here on earth? What did Christians do? Based from what I heard, from the past, they have had lots of inquisition for those who do not follow Jesus Christ and that is why, Christians population...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2 Jun 09
I was reading an article the other day. The author said that spiritual people and religion was the root of all evil in the world. He cited all the usual suspects in such a bit of prose; The witch hunts, the Inquisition, the...
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Riptide
@Riptide (2755)
• United States
21 May 07
A couole in India has been burned alive after being accused of practicing witchcraft.
I thought the Inquisition was long gone, but apparently not.
It seems it is still ongoing in some countries.I fing this highly disturbing and...
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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 May 07
Since I recently did a discussion about the modern day witch burning in India that was in the news...it got me to thinking about mankinds' fears about witchcraft in general...Now from what I understand "witch hunts" are still...
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