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Did you get to see the Spanish and Italian Inquisition series on PBS?

It was at least a three hour program and was awesome. I didn't realize the Church just released their records a few years ago, and that they rescinded their banned books list only in 1960.... What did you think, if you watched it? That Napoleon liberated Northern Italy from the Inquisition was news to me. I had often heard that he was considered a liberator all across Europe in his day. Beethoven even dedicated a symphony to him. But I had never really understood what Napoleon had done to get this reception. We’re taught mainly about his military genius, his arrogance and womanizing, his Winter debacle in Russia, his ultimate hubris in declaring himself emperor and his downfall and subsequent exiles. But I had never heard the story of his liberation of the Jewish ghettos of Italy, nor of his confiscation and study of 1300 crates of Inquisition records. It is from Napoleon’s scholars that we learned of the persecution of Galileo. Without Napoleon, I believe we would still be in the dark over the extent of the Inquisition. ====== "I have not yet seen anything about the Protestant Inquisition, that made also some very bad things" Huh??? In the USA: from early age we’re indoctrinated in the religious

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I didn't watch it, but I have seen in similar programs that in this country certain things are biased, one of them is the Catholic church and the Inquisition. I have not yet seen anything about the Protestant Inquisition, that made also some very bad things, like burning Dr. Michael Servet, discoverer of the blood circulation
It was produced by a Jew and had a very anti White Christian slant.
I did watch it. One of things most shocking to me was the story of that jewish boy being abducted by the Inquisition in the 1870's! I thought the Inquisition was only in the middle ages. Good thing the Catholic Church had all its military power removed during the unification of Italy. Just goes to show that absolute power really does corrupt absolutely.