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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I think that's likely a factor. Our belief in our unique calling , OTOH, is another.
    I would call that an intangible factor that can't be measured. It is nice, but if we had a Germany on our West and a Russia on our East, we would be Poland (subjugated much of our history).
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    Another thing I found interesting was that Spaniards had very little contact with the Inquisition. Far from being an element of everyday life it was largely irrelevant for the majority of the population. Outside the big cities, you might never have seen any inquisitor in your entire life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Another thing I found interesting was that Spaniards had very little contact with the Inquisition. Far from being an element of everyday life it was largely irrelevant for the majority of the population. Outside the big cities, you might never have seen any inquisitor in your entire life.
    You mentioned the low number of executions over the few hundred years of the active Inquisition. A lot more were sentenced to death and the secular authorities often left jail cells open and didn't pay attention or what have you.

    It was probably a running joke of the day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    You mentioned the low number of executions over the few hundred years of the active Inquisition. A lot more were sentenced to death and the secular authorities often left jail cells open and didn't pay attention or what have you.

    It was probably a running joke of the day.
    lol That reminds me. There are records of people blaspheming on purpose to get out of secular jails.

    Apparently, people who fled prosecution were burned in effigy which is kind of weird.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    lol That reminds me. There are records of people blaspheming on purpose to get out of secular jails.

    Apparently, people who fled prosecution were burned in effigy which is kind of weird.
    An excuse for a party?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    An excuse for a party?
    It was a spectacle, I suppose.
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    The Aztecs built gardens on a lake, they were called chinampas. When Spaniards first saw the gardens they thought they were floating islands. But these gardens were actually attached to the bottom of the lakebed, in rows, which formed canals for canoes and easy water access. The edges of the gardens were lined with willow trees whose roots helped keep the gardens from washing away. Some are still there.



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    I believe the Maya did something similar.
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    It was interesting to learn that Manichaeism was a capital offense in both Sassanid Persia and the Roman Empire. It was also essentially banned in China. Most of you are probably more familiar with the Catharism of 13th Century France which was simply a form of neo-Manichaeism. It has become very clear to me just how destructive and subversive this belief system was. Moreover, Catharism wasn't a Christian heresy. It was an alien and rival religion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    It was interesting to learn that Manichaeism was a capital offense in both Sassanid Persia and the Roman Empire. It was also essentially banned in China. Most of you are probably more familiar with the Catharism of 13th Century France which was simply a form of neo-Manichaeism. It has become very clear to me just how destructive and subversive this belief system was. Moreover, Catharism wasn't a Christian heresy. It was an alien and rival religion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

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