Galileo's fate was very different from that of other scientists at the time of the Inquisition.
There was a time when Christians believed in the Inquisition, in killing Christian non-conformists, Muslims and Jews.
With the Inquisition frequently breathing down her neck and excommunications flying to and fro, it was no easy endeavour.
As a result, she is accused by the Inquisition of having heretical Jewish tendencies and shut away in a church dungeon.
Spain by the Inquisition that brought many of the heretics to Sarajevo.
The Inquisition was a public recognition of the failure of the priests.
This meant the two places where the Inquisition was most active were also the places where there was the least hysteria about witches.
So, instead of affirmatively defending the inquisition, Goldberg goes into great detail describing how much more awful other anti-Jewish violence in Spain was.
The inquisition of the world's most high-profile, richest cricketers had begun in right earnest with one channel unsparingly highlighting the "villains" of the team.
The church of the martyrs became the church of the Inquisition.
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Accused of heresy by the Inquisition while visiting the Royal Court in Madrid, the machine, fashionably dressed in silk pantaloons, spent several months in a Spanish prison.
Does Goldberg actually think the Inquisition was no big deal?
While working in one of the libraries in Spain, he came across the writings of Jewish leaders in Spain from the years leading up to the Inquisition and expulsion in 1492.
Visitors to Valladolid, located north of Madrid, can follow a route through the city that is dedicated to sites associated with Cipriano Salcedo, a 16th-century merchant who was swept up in the fires of the Inquisition.
One imagines, too, that a host of security agencies have taken a cue from the waybills and are busy assembling lists of names associated with the Inquisition and the Crusades in an effort to identify terrorist packages more quickly.
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The tortures inflicted on victims of the Holy Inquisition for heresy from the Middle Ages onwards are legendary.
Netanyahu's findings led to his revolutionary conclusion that the Spanish Inquisition did not target the Jews as a religion, but the Jews as a race.
But then in the 17th Century, supposed heretics were tried and executed here during the Spanish Inquisition -- burnings at the stake and deaths by garrotte took place on the north side of the square, hangings to the south.
For others he is more like Torquemada, the infamous head of the Spanish Inquisition.
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His opposition to torture included the process of water-boarding, a technique McCain said began during the Spanish Inquisition.
Netanyahu's own lesson from the Spanish Inquisition is that for Jews, assimilation is as much of a utopian path as socialism.
Tens of thousands of Marranos were tortured by the Spanish Inquisition.
We usually associate heretic with religion, namely, the Roman Catholic Church: Inquisition, burning people at the stake, etc.
Depending upon whom you ask, Revkin is either the keeper of the truth on climate change or the scribe of the global warming inquisition.
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