Holy Horrors: The Inquisition
The victim was required to confess that he was a heretic, but also to accuse his children, wife, friends, and others as fellow heretics.
Holy Horrors: Church atrocities receded in Europe because of the Enlightenment
Why did church atrocities recede in the West? Because a new social climate was spreading - the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment.
Holy Horrors: Witch-Hunts
During the 1400s, the Inquisition shifted its focus toward witchcraft, and the next 300 years witnessed a bizarre orgy of religious delusion.
Holy Horrors: Killing Heretics
In 1208, Pope Innocent III declared a major crusade to destroy the Albigenses. Some 20,000 knights and peasants answered the call.
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