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At some point someone has to expect something Inquisition-like in Spain, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty...

Result of 500 year old Elizabethan propaganda. Actual historical records show that Inquisition persecution was SO lightweight and tolerant that even ordinary criminals tried to get themselves reclassified as religious offenders to be able to get off lightly.

You obviously don't know history, unless 'lightweight persecution' includes torture in your dictionary.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-de-Torquemada

Ah, Encyclopedia Britannica - the British Empire, having established the Anglican ecclesial community in defiance of Rome, mortal ancient enemies of the Spanish Empire. I'm sure they have no motive to embellish black legends about the Romish Church and English Catholics like St. Thomas More and William Shakespeare were perfectly safe to practice their faith and attend Popish Masses and priests never needed to hide from British authorities. Yeah, totally unbiased source, that Britannica. God save the King.

The Encyclopedia Britannica is a U.S. publication, and has been for well over a hundred years.

Seems fairly accurate in this case. You can also read about it in Wikipedia anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada

You can see all the references in the article (including but not limited to Britannica).

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There are plenty of Spanish references too. I linked to one the general audience here could read.

The Inquisition had rules around torture. The secular authorities did not.

Revisionist history? The Jews who converted to avoid expulsion and (some of whom) were practicing their religion in secret would like a word.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2430792/jewis...

Most of these people never actually dug into anything, but just accept the popular idea that the Inquisition tortured millions.

La leyenda negra, is a concept that doesn't reach many people in the anglo-saxon world

It's a lost cause.

The french revolution killed in a couple of years a high multiple of what the Spanish inquisition killed in over a century. Of all the crimes, massacres and genocides of the last centuries, it probably doesn't even register in the top 200.

You can’t compare an uprising against internal occupant (French Revolution) with a genocide (Catholic fascists).

No one ever did, man. No one ever did.

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