Everybody talks about the Spanish Inquisition conveniently ignoring the fact that across the Channel lived a real bloodthirsty serial killer. Henry VIII is directly responsible for over 72,000 deaths; his victims were boiled in oil, quartered, asphyxiated, etc but who’s counting?
I don't think this is purposely to single out Spain. You know Spain is part of Europe. Spaniards are white Europeans really not that much different from other Western Europeans like the English, French & the Germans. All these Europeans during that time were pretty crazy people who thought of sinister ways to hurt people. But what really fascinates me to be honest is the length they went to in order to create such sophisticated devices to cause maximum pain and damage to the human body. This level of sophistication took place in medieval times.
They did all this in the name of GOD! I feel certain that this is not what he would want. This was pure evil done by men who claim to be Christian and that type still exist today.
no. dont blame God. that was a putrid EXCUSE and at the VERY LEAST an extremely wrong headed IF NOT OUTRIGHT deliberate interpretation of the famous buy bull, which as noted for centuries has ALSO been corrupted by humahns. feel free to count the number of 'only correct one' versions. dozens. its ALL about POWER.
The Church was never built for God but for the power of man. Christianity was created by the Ronans 400 years after killing Christ and used the religion to gain power.
Yup, the pro vax mandate folks seem like the type of folks that would be perfectly fine with this happening to anti vaxers lol. (I even misspelled vaxers on purpose, those pro mandate people have so much power this might be censored if I wrote it correctly)
Some of these illustrations showed the people who were inflicting these tortures had big grins on their faces. How evil do you have to be to get your jollies watching other human beings being abused, tormented and eventually executed? Gives Saturday Night entertainment a whole new meaning and horrendous level.
I think some of these men became torturers BECAUSE THEY ENJOYED HURTING PEOPLE! They may have told the leaders of the Inquisition that they were doing it because they wanted to serve the Catholic Church, to serve God and Jesus, to ensure a place for themselves in Heaven, or because they had a "vision" telling them to join the Inquisition, etc, but it was all a facade designed to hide the truth, that they wished to take part in the torturing of the "heretics" just so they could satisfy every sadistic urge that dwelt within them. Incidents of vicious religious bigotry, persecution, and violence such as that is one of the reasons that our Founding Fathers included the First Amendment in the new United States Constitution, which in addition to protecting Freedom of Speech, of the Press, of peaceful assembly, of petition to the Government "for a redress of grievances," also states that Congress is forbidden to pass any law "respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That means that not one religion can be made the official faith of any American city, neighborhood, state, county, or of the United States itself, that everyone in the United States has the right to go to their own churches, to worship as they chose, and that no one has a right to impose their personal religious beliefs upon others, or to tell people that they have to pray in a certain way, or to punish them if they practice a different religion.
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg
Yea bet the atheist Mao Zedong and Stalin would agreed with you while mass murdering millions that no religious wars can even come close to the death count these two committed in short amount of time throughout history
My history teacher the late Kevin Jolly was a lay preacher and taught us well. However he said the Papal Inquisition was a lot worse than the Spanish Inquisition
Yes you are correct: the Papal Inquisition was truly dreadful... the Church takes a blind eye to their appallingly violent past.. the Inquisition lasted well over 600 years.
I once took a tour of a "torture museum" in which various forms of torture were explained by a tour guide as you walk through the museum and see mock up scenes depicting the torture, complete with screaming faced mannequins and recordings of screams playing on a loop. The one I thought was most intense was the evisceration display! A red rope resembling intestines was being pulled out of the mannequin's belly and the screams were just woah! As the tour guide calmly explained that the victims would survive for days without their intestines and were simply left to suffer until death! Talk about sadistic!
@@fedevida1951 It was probably depicting older methods from before the Inquisition. I mean, the methods had to exist in order to be banned. Because, by your assessment, more than 99% of the entire museum was "exaggerated." It was a medieval torture museum.
@@guiguillaume9624 it's called the thirst for power, and religion was/is used as the smokescreen to achieve that power. Man's inhumanity to man is fathomless.
It starts when you begin to buy into the “Them vs Us” lie. That’s the first step in beginning to believe that people who aren’t “Us” are somehow to valued less than you.
According to Kamen, even though there are no exact counts, Spanish Inquisición would have killed 3000-9000 people thoughout 500 years. We should recall St Batholomew night in París, for instance, when Many more were killed, Noth Américan tribes genocide, etc Neither ones are so bad, nor others are so innocent
@@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري Torture was common place throughout those times and in many countries yet the only one that gets singled out is Spain. That is wrong.
It’s not just Kamen who refutes these outrageous Black Lies. It’s instructive reading the comments. The majority swallow this nonsense hook line and sinker, all the while considering themselves wise and moral.
Because it was the most brutal. It actually originated in Rome in the 12 century. That was the Medieval Inquisition. The reason it was named the Spanish Inquisition was because the Spaniards made the most advanced and most brutal torturing equipment, which they obviously used. Yes, you are right there were many other countries, that also had them. I'm currently reading 3 books on the Spanish Inquisition and although incredibly unimaginable to fathom such torture in that era I find it incredibly fascinating. History not only of Spain but all of history is something I've always loved to read on. I'm planning a trip to Spain 🇪🇸, beautiful Spain and I cannot wait to get over there. I love everything about the people, culture, country and history. Every country in the world has a past and it's not pretty, but learning about it is so extraordinary and intriguing.
@tatyana5761 It is amazing how repeating this stale Protestant anti-Catholic anti-Spanish propaganda without any empirical support for over 500 years has made many people actually believe it. You may want to consider focusing more on the witches burned by Protestants in northern European countries which numbered many more than in the Inquisition. I am providing you below with an article below that may help you become more familiar with the truth. Were 50 Million People Really Killed in the Inquisition? Some anti-Catholic polemicists exploit myths about the Inquisition in a spirit of fear, surprise, ruthless exaggeration, and an almost fanatical opposition to the pope Dave Armstrong BlogsMay 30, 2018 Apologetics (defending Catholicism and sometimes general Christianity) is usually very fun. I love my work, but at times it is maddeningly frustrating. One time I had an experience that provides an opportunity to clarify some relevant historical facts about the Inquisition. (Actually, there were several Inquisitions). Non-Catholic Christians and the secular world have used the Inquisitions, the Crusades and the Galileo incident, as “clubs” to bash the Church for almost 500 years. I did so myself, in my Protestant apologist days. But such critics almost invariably distort (willingly or unwittingly) the known facts in order to do so. A Reformed Protestant apologist and specialist in Islam referred on his website to “the Inquisition where an estimated 50-68 million people were killed by Rome.” Those were quite fantastic alleged numbers (to put it mildly and charitably), seeing that the entire population of Europe at its height in the Middle Ages is thought by scholars to have been maybe 100-120 million. That would mean that the Church killed as many people as the Black Death (Bubonic Plague), which wiped out about a third to half the population. I replied: “Please tell me the name of reputable historians who assert such an absolutely ridiculous figure.” He said that he knew of an internet article that he couldn't locate, by one David A. Plaisted: who turned out to be a professor of computer science, not an academic historian at all. But when pressed, my fiend offered no actual historian to back up his assertion and quickly descended (as so often in these sorts of “discussions”) to mere insults and evasive tactics. Before I was banned from his site, I produced for him - upon being challenged to do so - two (non-Catholic) professors of history with vastly different opinions. Edward Peters, from the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Inquisition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Henry Kamen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, wrote The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). These two books are in the forefront of an emerging, very different perspective on the Inquisitions: an understanding that they were exponentially less inclined to issue death penalties than had previously been commonly assumed, and also quite different in character and even essence than the longstanding anti-Catholic stereotypes would have us believe. On page 87 of his book, Dr. Peters states: “The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.” Likewise, Dr. Kamen states in his book: Taking into account all the tribunals of Spain up to about 1530, it is unlikely that more than two thousand people were executed for heresy by the Inquisition. (p. 60) . . . it is clear that for most of its existence that Inquisition was far from being a juggernaut of death either in intention or in capability. . . . it would seem that during the 16th and 17th centuries fewer than three people a year were executed in the whole of the Spanish monarchy from Sicily to Peru, certainly a lower rate than in any provincial court of justice in Spain or anywhere else in Europe. (p. 203) Huge myths obviously abound. But does this mean that I “defend” capital punishment for heresy, or that all Catholics should? No; personally, I advocate the tolerant practices of the early Church. Yet I think it's also supremely important to properly and accurately understand the Inquisitions in the context of their times (the Middle Ages and early modern periods). In those eras, almost all Christians (not just Catholics; minus only a few small groups like Anabaptists and Quakers) believed in both corporal and capital punishment for heresy, because they thought that heresy was far more dangerous to a person and society than physical disease was. Their premise, at least, was exactly right, as far as it goes: heresy can land one in hell; no disease could ever do that. How to deal with heresy is a separate, and very complex question. In the Middle Ages, all heresy was pretty much regarded as obstinacy and in bad faith; evil will, etc. The Church today takes a much more psychologically nuanced approach: much heresy is (erroneously) believed in good faith; hence the adherent is less culpable and not guilty enough to be punished. We've also learned that coercion is pointless. This was the original Christian position, anyway (before heresy became wrapped up in civil disorder, such as in the cases of the Donatists, Monophysites, Arians and Albigensians, among others). Be that as it may, some Protestants and other critics of the Catholic Church exercise a glaring double standard in condemning only the Catholic Church for engaging in this practice, and grotesquely exaggerating by positing ludicrous numbers; even desperately enlisting non-historians to bolster their uninformed views. In reply, it must be noted that Protestants (including Luther, Calvin, the early English Protestants, Zwingli, Melanchthon et al.) have a very long and troubling list of “scandals” and “inquisitions” as well. As just one example among many, Martin Luther and John Calvin both sanctioned the execution of Anabaptists due to their belief in adult baptism, which they considered to be “sedition.” Thousands of Catholics in England and Ireland were executed (often in very hideous ways) simply for being Catholics and worshiping as their ancestors had done for 1500 years. Thus, it is clear that the notion of the death penalty for heresy was largely a product of the Middle Ages, and the Protestants who came at the end of that period did not, for the most part, dissent from it at all. In fact, the execution of reputed “witches” was almost entirely a Protestant phenomenon (as in the famous Salem Witch trials). To utterly ignore these facts, while condemning the Catholic Church, is to engage in dishonest historical revisionism
We Chicagoans have a certain police station on the south side that has a subbasement with a complete torture chamber. They even have a strapodo to torture criminals. A lawyer relative told me this.
Because of all that I have always hated RC. As I am Dutch we werd taught about the Middle Ages and I read a lot about it. Makes me wonder if todays powerhungry politicians would do the same if they could.
Does anyone know where I can buy a rack and breaking wheel? I'm trying to complete my basement torture chamber and I've already kidnapped my first victims, so it's pretty time sensitive that I find these contraptions. Thanks!
There is a priest present at the tortures, somehow I don’t believe If Jesus came along he would condone torture, amazing how religious leaders thought torture was ok
@@Satisfyer007 You don't know your history, do you? The comfy chair was a terrifying method to cause many heretics to crack. You wouldn't survive this torture for 30 seconds without going insane.
I can imagine Jesus walking among those wayward bishops and being tortured for his sins and for him to then reveal himself to the torturer to show him his sinful ways.
Much talk about the Spanish inquisition but never talk about the French, Dutch, German or English, the Spanish inquisition killed 3 thousand people in 3 centuries while the German killed 25,000 people and more is told of the Spanish inquisition than of the real Assassins. Especially France that was the first to implement it and expanded its ideas. In your minds there is only one inquisition and it is the Spanish one and enough that the Spaniards are the bad guys of the film but we are the good ones in reality, as you can see that history is written by the victors.
The problem isn't religion, it's people using religion as a justification for persecution. There are millions of people who attend church regularly, and yet are perfectly tolerant of other people's faith, and wouldn't dare to hurt or kill anyone whose religion (or skin color, or race, or nationality, etc) is different.
Michael Palmieri I agree. But the problem is there has been and still is powerful religious leaders that use their faith to coerce their followers in the name of religion to carry out heinous acts against other religions and non believers. It's a shame that people need religion to have a reason to lead 'good' lives and be told how to act towards their fellow human beings instead stead of relying on common sense.
Ah,yes the benefits of religion,a civilizing and culturally enriching social construct, bringing untold benefits Well,not today, thank you Tomorrow doesn't look good either
I'll bet there where many demons present to feed of the fear and terror.. And of the joy of the spectators.. Like football...one winning team and one losing team...
You can always take your chances with those that don't recognize religion... Maybe move to communist China... Do you think religion is some kind of prerequisite for this kind of behavior?
What the producer of this video fails to state is that torture was common in this era. Also, there is no support that the Inquisition utilized all these methods of torture, because they didn't.
Ah, the wonderfully compassionate catholic faith, why couldn't the poor sods they tortured just say three Hail Marys? Religion is so gentle and loving and it is all done in the name of a loving sky fairy.
It’s like this. When evil people in your government do terrible things and your whole country suffers. It has nothing to do with God. It’s done in his name. Not by anything that might be condoned.
@@whereswaldo5740 Well according to that vile, immoral book it did enough killing itself, it also condoned slavery and rape, so it condoned quite a lot if that disgusting book is anything to go by.
@@wodens-hitman1552 The fact is that you can see how Many Indiana There are on south América, and how Many there are on EEUU. Stop stating absurd líes.
They had just freed themselves from Moorish rule. The Moors had invaded and ruled the Iberian Penninsula in brutal fashion. The Inquisition was a cleansing of Moors.
This is not true. There was no killing of civilians. They fought the Gothic army and defeated it. After that, everyone lived there, Jews and Muslim Christians, for 8 centuries. Most of the Muslims there were not the Moorish, but the indigenous people. They converted to Islam because the Muslims were an escape from what the church was doing to them, and they were more than He was tortured to return them to Catholicism, but they continued to hide their religion for 400 years of the Inquisition until the law was lifted. Some of them declared that they were still Muslims, while others immigrated to various countries of the world as refugees. It is a disgrace.
The Portuguese introduced the Catholic Inquisition to the countries in it's Asian Empire. Francis Xavier brought the Inquisition to Goa and then to Ceylon. The Portuguese Inquisition in Ceylon led to the destruction of all the Buddhist and Hindu Temples in Portuguese occupied parts of Ceylon including the Northen Peninsula. The Portuguese forbade the practice of Buddhism and Hinduism, and Buddhist monks were killed. Some were thrown live from Bridges to the River to be eaten by Crocodiles. At the end of the Portuguese era ( 1505 - 1658) in Ceylon, there were neither Buddhist Temples nor Buddhist monks. The Portuguese seized Buddhist temple lands and after having destroyed the beautiful temples built Catholic Churches on top of the sites of destroyed Temples. The Portuguese Historians attest to this fact. Read Father Queyroz Monumental treatise ' The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon' which gives the full list of the Churches built on top of the sites of destroyed Buddhist Temples.
Sin is a crime punishable by death. In the name of God, this was justice. I hope their will soon be another spanish inquisition to rid the world of sinners and demonic worship.
I will never comprehend the cruelty and the inhumanity the so-called God-fearing people God died on the cross for us he's suffered so we don't have to suffer as for torquemada God forgive me I hope he rots in Hell how could you do such a thing to poor people unbelievable I just cannot wrap my head around the evil
7:00 worst punishment featured but not featured. Is the bronze bull on the left of the picture with a door on it and a fire underneath. The Victim was cooked alive inside it. Was first used by the greeks legend says it was so cruel it was chucked into the sea when the king died. Not supprize something like it was used by the church
Modern day torture going to dentist and they use watered down : Anesthesia and ask do you feel pain or pressure as they yank : On your stinking rotting decayed tooth 🔧
More people died in the Protestant northern German principalities and in the Protestant British Isles on charges of witchcraft than in the Inquisition.
Think this torture is brutal?? How did you forget that the Aztecs went straight to execution: Victim upon the altar at the highest stairs, heart yanked out toungue ripped out eyeballs removed the Aztecs we're the sickest sickos.
Everybody talks about the Spanish Inquisition conveniently ignoring the fact that across the Channel lived a real bloodthirsty serial killer. Henry VIII is directly responsible for over 72,000 deaths; his victims were boiled in oil, quartered, asphyxiated, etc but who’s counting?
He’s got numbers right up there with ex-governor Cuomo.
Right. Stalin said a death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.
But it is important to keep track. It becomes relative when making a point.
Henry viii and his daughters get all the exposure warranted for the persecution they brought about
There are many videos about Henry VIii and his brutality!😱
I don't think this is purposely to single out Spain. You know Spain is part of Europe. Spaniards are white Europeans really not that much different from other Western Europeans like the English, French & the Germans. All these Europeans during that time were pretty crazy people who thought of sinister ways to hurt people. But what really fascinates me to be honest is the length they went to in order to create such sophisticated devices to cause maximum pain and damage to the human body. This level of sophistication took place in medieval times.
They did all this in the name of GOD! I feel certain that this is not what he would want. This was pure evil done by men who claim to be Christian and that type still exist today.
no. dont blame God. that was a putrid EXCUSE and at the VERY LEAST an extremely wrong headed IF NOT OUTRIGHT deliberate interpretation of the famous buy bull, which as noted for centuries has ALSO been corrupted by humahns. feel free to count the number of 'only correct one' versions. dozens. its ALL about POWER.
Hail Satan
Absolutely spot on my friend x
The Church was never built for God but for the power of man. Christianity was created by the Ronans 400 years after killing Christ and used the religion to gain power.
Still happens today
Don't think for one second that this type of shit could never happen again.
Yup, the pro vax mandate folks seem like the type of folks that would be perfectly fine with this happening to anti vaxers lol. (I even misspelled vaxers on purpose, those pro mandate people have so much power this might be censored if I wrote it correctly)
@@shanek6582
Shane, you understood completely what I was meaning man🙏🙏🙏👍🏴
It’s not torture but enhanced interrogation methods.
Yes...if Trump becomes President again.
@@shanek6582 I'm sorry for you.
Religion is actually a very powerful political weapon. That is the primary purpose of religion and why it was developed or invented.
Actually ,religion predates any form of politics by tens of thousands of years
@@firestorm8471 Politics is everything .. from the day 1 man started to think.
@@planeteuropa don’t think too hard there junior. You don’t know half as much as you think
Crooked politics are the direct result of radical wings of religion, not the other way around kid.
@@nostoneunturned7641 yeah the problem is people taking that shit literally.
If there is a hell of some kind, I hope the people that inflicted those kinds of torture on people went there!! Humans are savages
They definitely went there , don't worry abt it, an eternal torturous suffering to both evil human and devil by Hell Angel
Some of these illustrations showed the people who were inflicting these tortures had big grins on their faces. How evil do you have to be to get your jollies watching other human beings being abused, tormented and eventually executed? Gives Saturday Night entertainment a whole new meaning and horrendous level.
I think some of these men became torturers BECAUSE THEY ENJOYED HURTING PEOPLE! They may have told the leaders of the Inquisition that they were doing it because they wanted to serve the Catholic Church, to serve God and Jesus, to ensure a place for themselves in Heaven, or because they had a "vision" telling them to join the Inquisition, etc, but it was all a facade designed to hide the truth, that they wished to take part in the torturing of the "heretics" just so they could satisfy every sadistic urge that dwelt within them.
Incidents of vicious religious bigotry, persecution, and violence such as that is one of the reasons that our Founding Fathers included the First Amendment in the new United States Constitution, which in addition to protecting Freedom of Speech, of the Press, of peaceful assembly, of petition to the Government "for a redress of grievances," also states that Congress is forbidden to pass any law "respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That means that not one religion can be made the official faith of any American city, neighborhood, state, county, or of the United States itself, that everyone in the United States has the right to go to their own churches, to worship as they chose, and that no one has a right to impose their personal religious beliefs upon others, or to tell people that they have to pray in a certain way, or to punish them if they practice a different religion.
@Fede Vida thanks! I'll watch it.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Brother. You said a mouthful.
@@fedevida1951 Pretty well documented myth.
@@whereswaldo5740
Thanks for the compliment. 👍
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg
Yea bet the atheist Mao Zedong and Stalin would agreed with you while mass murdering millions that no religious wars can even come close to the death count these two committed in short amount of time throughout history
Nonsense.
Perfect sense based on history.
Communist atrocities required no religion
@@Scotty-P Religion = control of the masses through fear.
«Una mentira repetida mil veces se convierte en una verdad.» ―Göbbels
Can you also do a video on the English Inquisition?
I don’t think it will ever be done because the idea is to spread the Black Legend about Spain.
My history teacher the late Kevin Jolly was a lay preacher and taught us well. However he said the Papal Inquisition was a lot worse than the Spanish Inquisition
I think the Knights of St John answered to the Papal one. My Mum's from Malta and we have the waxworks in the dungeons plus an Inquisitors' Palace.
@@Kelly14UK I've been to Malta love the place and it's history.
@@michaelcampin1464 Yeah. Shame i'm moving house and taking all my postcards and flags down in my bedroom. Hundreds of it. Very historical. Cheers.
Well he'd know
Yes you are correct: the Papal Inquisition was truly dreadful... the Church takes a blind eye to their appallingly violent past.. the Inquisition lasted well over 600 years.
All that comes to mind is the phrase from the movie Equilibrium:
"Man's inhumanity to man."
I once took a tour of a "torture museum" in which various forms of torture were explained by a tour guide as you walk through the museum and see mock up scenes depicting the torture, complete with screaming faced mannequins and recordings of screams playing on a loop. The one I thought was most intense was the evisceration display! A red rope resembling intestines was being pulled out of the mannequin's belly and the screams were just woah! As the tour guide calmly explained that the victims would survive for days without their intestines and were simply left to suffer until death! Talk about sadistic!
Yeh that's very scary, it's literally beyond imagination, you're truly in the presence of true evil when that kind of thing is happening to you
@@earthcrawler1159 definitely!
@@fedevida1951 It was probably depicting older methods from before the Inquisition. I mean, the methods had to exist in order to be banned. Because, by your assessment, more than 99% of the entire museum was "exaggerated." It was a medieval torture museum.
Well you can't take the screams into account as they were fake
I have seen the museum in London, and I can guarantee that nothing even similar was ever used or found, typical protestant anti catholic propaganda
The very thought these methods were used on a person has left me feeling rather unwell,
When speaking to Roman Catholics about this piece of history, I have had them completely reject that it happened.
Those people died years ago.. Get over it. Are you living on stolen land ??
@@MrRobhartman What’s your point? At this point in history. Who isn’t.
It's amazing the methods of torture that were devised and inflicted on people. You wonder of the sickness in their minds.
That's what religion dose to people
Psychopaths/sociopaths often try to get in positions of power.
This fact explains a lot about present society...
Something about the hair shirt just seems devious in a subtle way, like a constant itch that cannot be scratched
Every religion has these evils in its history cause man is not God and is flawed. Give men power and you'll find their true character.
Evil have no religion
Men actually exist. Unlike the invisible sky daddy
@@guiguillaume9624 it's called the thirst for power, and religion was/is used as the smokescreen to achieve that power.
Man's inhumanity to man is fathomless.
@@guiguillaume9624 Well put.
@@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 yeah but you forgot money the root of all evil before, now and forever
Another banger. Really enjoying this channel! Cheers
You shouldn’t, it’s uniformed ignorant clickbait.
And there was always a man of God present, giving the orders.
Abdolutely vile, how can a human inflict such suffering on another person, just shows how fucked up the human race really is
It starts when you begin to buy into the “Them vs Us” lie. That’s the first step in beginning to believe that people who aren’t “Us” are somehow to valued less than you.
I can relate. I have been to the pedicure place on Saturday to wait for my girlfriend. I've never been so frightened.
Made me laugh this haha!
HAHAHA 😅 HAHAHA YEAH.
Just the smell.
The Catholics....making the Taliban look tame for a thousand years.
Nope. Coz they haven't done this in hundreds of years.
They invented Islam.
They sent a nun to live in a cave and guide their main man. It took years. But here we are.
Don't forget the comfy chair!
That torture terrifies me to this day. Being poked with the soft cushions sends a chill down my spine.
All of these torture methods are still used today. For example waterboarding by the US the wheel (tire) in Syria the strappado in Ethiopia etc
So these are the "civilized" people that came and taught the "right" way to the Native Americans.
Ironic that they thought they were doing good when committing such evil.
I challenge the producer to provide sources for the claims that are being made.
According to Kamen, even though there are no exact counts, Spanish Inquisición would have killed 3000-9000 people thoughout 500 years.
We should recall St Batholomew night in París, for instance, when Many more were killed, Noth Américan tribes genocide, etc
Neither ones are so bad, nor others are so innocent
Stop justifying it this is torture
@@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري Torture was common place throughout those times and in many countries yet the only one that gets singled out is Spain. That is wrong.
It’s not just Kamen who refutes these outrageous Black Lies.
It’s instructive reading the comments. The majority swallow this nonsense hook line and sinker, all the while considering themselves wise and moral.
All of these sound horrendous but personally, that hair shirt just stuck with me. I have sensitive skin; that would drive me insane!
Makes a modern prison sentence look like a holiday
Realistically After being on the Rack would it be possible for anyone to walk ?
Probably not
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
😂
I don't get it
@@cachifli870 Monty Python
There were Inquisitions in several European countries, but the only one that gets mentioned is the Spanish Inquisition.
Because it was the most brutal. It actually originated in Rome in the 12 century. That was the Medieval Inquisition. The reason it was named the Spanish Inquisition was because the Spaniards made the most advanced and most brutal torturing equipment, which they obviously used. Yes, you are right there were many other countries, that also had them. I'm currently reading 3 books on the Spanish Inquisition and although incredibly unimaginable to fathom such torture in that era I find it incredibly fascinating. History not only of Spain but all of history is something I've always loved to read on. I'm planning a trip to Spain 🇪🇸, beautiful Spain and I cannot wait to get over there. I love everything about the people, culture, country and history. Every country in the world has a past and it's not pretty, but learning about it is so extraordinary and intriguing.
@tatyana5761 It is amazing how repeating this stale Protestant anti-Catholic anti-Spanish propaganda without any empirical support for over 500 years has made many people actually believe it. You may want to consider focusing more on the witches burned by Protestants in northern European countries which numbered many more than in the Inquisition. I am providing you below with an article below that may help you become more familiar with the truth.
Were 50 Million People Really Killed in the Inquisition?
Some anti-Catholic polemicists exploit myths about the Inquisition in a spirit of fear, surprise, ruthless exaggeration, and an almost fanatical opposition to the pope
Dave Armstrong BlogsMay 30, 2018
Apologetics (defending Catholicism and sometimes general Christianity) is usually very fun. I love my work, but at times it is maddeningly frustrating. One time I had an experience that provides an opportunity to clarify some relevant historical facts about the Inquisition. (Actually, there were several Inquisitions).
Non-Catholic Christians and the secular world have used the Inquisitions, the Crusades and the Galileo incident, as “clubs” to bash the Church for almost 500 years. I did so myself, in my Protestant apologist days. But such critics almost invariably distort (willingly or unwittingly) the known facts in order to do so.
A Reformed Protestant apologist and specialist in Islam referred on his website to “the Inquisition where an estimated 50-68 million people were killed by Rome.” Those were quite fantastic alleged numbers (to put it mildly and charitably), seeing that the entire population of Europe at its height in the Middle Ages is thought by scholars to have been maybe 100-120 million.
That would mean that the Church killed as many people as the Black Death (Bubonic Plague), which wiped out about a third to half the population. I replied: “Please tell me the name of reputable historians who assert such an absolutely ridiculous figure.”
He said that he knew of an internet article that he couldn't locate, by one David A. Plaisted: who turned out to be a professor of computer science, not an academic historian at all. But when pressed, my fiend offered no actual historian to back up his assertion and quickly descended (as so often in these sorts of “discussions”) to mere insults and evasive tactics. Before I was banned from his site, I produced for him - upon being challenged to do so - two (non-Catholic) professors of history with vastly different opinions.
Edward Peters, from the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Inquisition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Henry Kamen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, wrote The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
These two books are in the forefront of an emerging, very different perspective on the Inquisitions: an understanding that they were exponentially less inclined to issue death penalties than had previously been commonly assumed, and also quite different in character and even essence than the longstanding anti-Catholic stereotypes would have us believe.
On page 87 of his book, Dr. Peters states: “The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.” Likewise, Dr. Kamen states in his book:
Taking into account all the tribunals of Spain up to about 1530, it is unlikely that more than two thousand people were executed for heresy by the Inquisition. (p. 60)
. . . it is clear that for most of its existence that Inquisition was far from being a juggernaut of death either in intention or in capability. . . . it would seem that during the 16th and 17th centuries fewer than three people a year were executed in the whole of the Spanish monarchy from Sicily to Peru, certainly a lower rate than in any provincial court of justice in Spain or anywhere else in Europe. (p. 203)
Huge myths obviously abound. But does this mean that I “defend” capital punishment for heresy, or that all Catholics should? No; personally, I advocate the tolerant practices of the early Church. Yet I think it's also supremely important to properly and accurately understand the Inquisitions in the context of their times (the Middle Ages and early modern periods).
In those eras, almost all Christians (not just Catholics; minus only a few small groups like Anabaptists and Quakers) believed in both corporal and capital punishment for heresy, because they thought that heresy was far more dangerous to a person and society than physical disease was. Their premise, at least, was exactly right, as far as it goes: heresy can land one in hell; no disease could ever do that. How to deal with heresy is a separate, and very complex question.
In the Middle Ages, all heresy was pretty much regarded as obstinacy and in bad faith; evil will, etc. The Church today takes a much more psychologically nuanced approach: much heresy is (erroneously) believed in good faith; hence the adherent is less culpable and not guilty enough to be punished. We've also learned that coercion is pointless. This was the original Christian position, anyway (before heresy became wrapped up in civil disorder, such as in the cases of the Donatists, Monophysites, Arians and Albigensians, among others).
Be that as it may, some Protestants and other critics of the Catholic Church exercise a glaring double standard in condemning only the Catholic Church for engaging in this practice, and grotesquely exaggerating by positing ludicrous numbers; even desperately enlisting non-historians to bolster their uninformed views.
In reply, it must be noted that Protestants (including Luther, Calvin, the early English Protestants, Zwingli, Melanchthon et al.) have a very long and troubling list of “scandals” and “inquisitions” as well. As just one example among many, Martin Luther and John Calvin both sanctioned the execution of Anabaptists due to their belief in adult baptism, which they considered to be “sedition.” Thousands of Catholics in England and Ireland were executed (often in very hideous ways) simply for being Catholics and worshiping as their ancestors had done for 1500 years.
Thus, it is clear that the notion of the death penalty for heresy was largely a product of the Middle Ages, and the Protestants who came at the end of that period did not, for the most part, dissent from it at all. In fact, the execution of reputed “witches” was almost entirely a Protestant phenomenon (as in the famous Salem Witch trials). To utterly ignore these facts, while condemning the Catholic Church, is to engage in dishonest historical revisionism
We Chicagoans have a certain police station on the south side that has a subbasement with a complete torture chamber. They even have a strapodo to torture criminals. A lawyer relative told me this.
... and your point is?
Just think what Cuomo has in NYC.
@@whereswaldo5740 ??????????????
The soft cushions! The comfy chair!
Nice. Someone had to say it. I gotta go. A moose bit my sister.
I think the first inquisition targeted the Cathars in France and the Dominicans were created to combat them.
Because of all that I have always hated RC. As I am Dutch we werd taught about the Middle Ages and I read a lot about it. Makes me wonder if todays powerhungry politicians would do the same if they could.
I think you are right. The Cathars were annihilated! 😢
Does anyone know where I can buy a rack and breaking wheel? I'm trying to complete my basement torture chamber and I've already kidnapped my first victims, so it's pretty time sensitive that I find these contraptions. Thanks!
Similar to "witch hunts" across Europe 15th century!
And America.
Those stretchers, gunneys, gurneys, and hangers were really sweat worthy
I wasn’t expecting this!
There is a priest present at the tortures, somehow I don’t believe If Jesus came along he would condone torture, amazing how religious leaders thought torture was ok
Well, I certainly didn't expect any of this.
Religeon has so much to answer for.
Religion has given so much joy to the human race.
Not a mention of the comfy chair what a way to go
Wich never existed
@@Satisfyer007 You don't know your history, do you? The comfy chair was a terrifying method to cause many heretics to crack. You wouldn't survive this torture for 30 seconds without going insane.
I can imagine Jesus walking among those wayward bishops and being tortured for his sins and for him to then reveal himself to the torturer to show him his sinful ways.
Read Dostoevsky the Grand Inquisitor.
He beat you to the idea - but it doesn’t play out how I expect you imagine.
Looking through my recommended video list.... I never expected to see the Spanish Inquisition ;
I think I speak for everyone here... love these kinda things, grim as they are. Keep em coming
Maybe foxes book of martyrs next please
Much talk about the Spanish inquisition but never talk about the French, Dutch, German or English, the Spanish inquisition killed 3 thousand people in 3 centuries while the German killed 25,000 people and more is told of the Spanish inquisition than of the real Assassins. Especially France that was the first to implement it and expanded its ideas. In your minds there is only one inquisition and it is the Spanish one and enough that the Spaniards are the bad guys of the film but we are the good ones in reality, as you can see that history is written by the victors.
Not included: Being forced to listen to Nickelback
Another reason to reject religion.
The problem isn't religion, it's people using religion as a justification for persecution. There are millions of people who attend church regularly, and yet are perfectly tolerant of other people's faith, and wouldn't dare to hurt or kill anyone whose religion (or skin color, or race, or nationality, etc) is different.
Oh yes the problem IS religion
Invented by people to controlothers
It’s been working over many many centuries and it’s alive and well today….sadly so
Michael Palmieri I agree. But the problem is there has been and still is powerful religious leaders that use their faith to coerce their followers in the name of religion to carry out heinous acts against other religions and non believers. It's a shame that people need religion to have a reason to lead 'good' lives and be told how to act towards their fellow human beings instead stead of relying on common sense.
@@combrogi
Good point.
Believe the great spaghetti monster. He will cometh with his mighty noodly apendeges.
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Wait…what about the Inquisition’s most diabolical devices? Where are the Soft Cushions? Where is the Comfy Chair?
That's Christianity for you.
Ah,yes the benefits of religion,a civilizing and culturally enriching social construct, bringing untold benefits Well,not today, thank you Tomorrow doesn't look good either
What? No mention of the notorious Comfy Chair?
At least they listened to you.
Awful, but the itchy shirt seems pretty mild compared to the others!
Interesting video, thank you 👍👍
Protestant propaganda exagerated and Hollywood helped a lot
What??.......no mention of the "Soft Cushions" or the "Comfy Chair"??
Pure evil
I'll bet there where many demons present to feed of the fear and terror..
And of the joy of the spectators..
Like football...one winning team and one losing team...
Johnson aka Billy liar has studied this , and will be implementing this soon against non conformists.
And they wonder why I can’t stand religion……..k
This is heretical
You can always take your chances with those that don't recognize religion... Maybe move to communist China... Do you think religion is some kind of prerequisite for this kind of behavior?
@@rray1953 it's not, people who claim so haven't studied religion
They knew how to enjoy themselves and have a good laugh in those days !!!
What the producer of this video fails to state is that torture was common in this era. Also, there is no support that the Inquisition utilized all these methods of torture, because they didn't.
Ah, the wonderfully compassionate catholic faith, why couldn't the poor sods they tortured just say three Hail Marys? Religion is so gentle and loving and it is all done in the name of a loving sky fairy.
No no, Religion gets a pass because these are extremists! Religion and religious people have never killed anyone. Ta dah!
It’s like this. When evil people in your government do terrible things and your whole country suffers.
It has nothing to do with God.
It’s done in his name. Not by anything that might be condoned.
@@whereswaldo5740 Well according to that vile, immoral book it did enough killing itself, it also condoned slavery and rape, so it condoned quite a lot if that disgusting book is anything to go by.
Exactly, this is vile
Religion is a wonderful thing
I don't see any "Made in Spain" label on the items. Mostly protestant propaganda.
Henry VIII ordered the decapitation of two of his 6 wives, ¿what did you expect from Anglican heretic ?
England didn't wipe out the new world. Mayas, aztecs, etc.
@@wodens-hitman1552 The fact is that you can see how Many Indiana There are on south América, and how Many there are on EEUU. Stop stating absurd líes.
No. 1 should have been the comfy chair
And it would happen again if they are given half a chance
We have Islam for that now. Another lovely religion.
Cardinal Biggles
Your tone of voice is somewhat grating.
You have to love religion.
You must. Or else.
@@whereswaldo5740 -- or else what?
No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition!!
Hoping you will make a video about the Nabka that happened in Palestine after WW2 🙏
What about black September Jordan and Lebanon killed 100,000 Palestinian s ?
500,000 dead in Syria .
No Nakbar?
Hypocrite
@@Nudnik1 Did i say so? No. You are upset or idk whats wrong with you (again...) about a request I made. Go do something usefull please.
They had just freed themselves from Moorish rule. The Moors had invaded and ruled the Iberian Penninsula in brutal fashion.
The Inquisition was a cleansing of Moors.
Only Christians could be subjected to the Inquisition.
This is not true. There was no killing of civilians. They fought the Gothic army and defeated it. After that, everyone lived there, Jews and Muslim Christians, for 8 centuries. Most of the Muslims there were not the Moorish, but the indigenous people. They converted to Islam because the Muslims were an escape from what the church was doing to them, and they were more than He was tortured to return them to Catholicism, but they continued to hide their religion for 400 years of the Inquisition until the law was lifted. Some of them declared that they were still Muslims, while others immigrated to various countries of the world as refugees. It is a disgrace.
Leave it to religion to come up with brutal methods of torture.
The Portuguese introduced the Catholic Inquisition to the countries in it's Asian Empire. Francis Xavier brought the Inquisition to Goa and then to Ceylon. The Portuguese Inquisition in Ceylon led to the destruction of all the Buddhist and Hindu Temples in Portuguese occupied parts of Ceylon including the Northen Peninsula. The Portuguese forbade the practice of Buddhism and Hinduism, and Buddhist monks were killed. Some were thrown live from Bridges to the River to be eaten by Crocodiles. At the end of the Portuguese era ( 1505 - 1658) in Ceylon, there were neither Buddhist Temples nor Buddhist monks. The Portuguese seized Buddhist temple lands and after having destroyed the beautiful temples built Catholic Churches on top of the sites of destroyed Temples. The Portuguese Historians attest to this fact. Read Father Queyroz Monumental treatise ' The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon' which gives the full list of the Churches built on top of the sites of destroyed Buddhist Temples.
Sin is a crime punishable by death. In the name of God, this was justice. I hope their will soon be another spanish inquisition to rid the world of sinners and demonic worship.
It's funny (peculiar) how so many killings were done in the name of Christ.
Unlike Islam that never killed anybody..
But no religious war can surpass the death amount of atheist war criminal does like Mao Zedong and Stalin
Can't even finish watching
Our main weapon fear and surprise,our 2 main etc
This is the hell st faustina talks about
The Nazi Holocaust the cruxifiction
Why else was it written if not as evidence.
No comfy pillows !!!! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition !!!
Like for this information, not for the evil activities
Misinformation. Read books.
Strange how the job of torturer, no matter, what
fucked up religion, used them, seldom had vaccancies.
Ahh, the glories of religion.
Good old Catholic tolerance
Another thought I just had your safer in a Earth quake than living in these dark ages of the Papel or Spanish Eq
I will never comprehend the cruelty and the inhumanity the so-called God-fearing people God died on the cross for us he's suffered so we don't have to suffer as for torquemada God forgive me I hope he rots in Hell how could you do such a thing to poor people unbelievable I just cannot wrap my head around the evil
7:00 worst punishment featured but not featured. Is the bronze bull on the left of the picture with a door on it and a fire underneath. The Victim was cooked alive inside it. Was first used by the greeks legend says it was so cruel it was chucked into the sea when the king died. Not supprize something like it was used by the church
Well I didn’t expect that
Good character building fun...should bring back these methods for terrorists, nonces and kiddie murderers/abusers.
Modern day torture going to dentist and they use watered down :
Anesthesia and ask do you feel pain or pressure as they yank :
On your stinking rotting decayed tooth 🔧
It wasn't just spain it was everywhere Spain had colonised as well
Read a little, please
More people died in the Protestant northern German principalities and in the Protestant British Isles on charges of witchcraft than in the Inquisition.
Think this torture is brutal?? How did you forget that the Aztecs went straight to execution:
Victim upon the altar at the highest stairs, heart yanked out toungue ripped out eyeballs removed the Aztecs we're the sickest sickos.
The Aztecs were also cannibals.
#6 Listening to anything by Simon Cowell
People have always been so nice to each other