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>>18929393
Ok, let's go.
>The Inquisition
>Witch burning in Europe
Piotrowski in "The Accused Church," writes that the Inquisition did not start lynchings of alleged witches, but limited them. It banished the "judgments of God" and the mindless cruelty of secular courts, often using ordals. The Church actually said very early that belief in witches comes from pagan beliefs and its thus prohibited, John Chrysostom wrote a whole book about it and he died in 407 or so. In 906 the Canon Episcopi was published, which unequivocally declared that accounts of witches' sabbaths, broomstick flying and similar stories should be considered expressions of pagan superstition, and descriptions of such events -- the products of wild fantasy, confusion of dreams with reality or the result of deception by an evil spirit. In the context of this approach, the later work of the Church Inquisition in matters of magic should be considered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Episcopi
The well-known "courts of God" (such as throwing the accused into water), also referred to as ordals, were repeatedly opposed by the Church and were even forbidden by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.
Actually, the number of death sentences of all types of the Inquisition is estimated at a maximum of 25,000 during its 700 years of operation, a figure that mainly includes those convicted of common crimes such as bigamy, sodomy, theft in churches, horse stealing, rape of female arrestees (guards), spying for the Arabs, and breaking the secret of confession (priests). The prisons of the Inquisition were much lighter than secular prisons during the same historical period. Similarly, torture, a routine method of investigation in the Middle Ages, was much lighter in the Inquisition's execution and limited by detailed regulations. Medieval inquisitors used two types of imprisonment. The first, murus largus, consisted of sentencing the guilty to stay in a monastery, with very strictly limited rights of movement; the second, murus strictus, consisted of strict confinement in a monastery cell. In both cases, the prisoner received minimal food and was forbidden contact with the outside world (only visits from a spouse were permitted). Prisoners were usually sentenced to life imprisonment, but this was generally reduced later. The isolation in the monastery by its character was undoubtedly more similar to penitential practice than to criminal punishment. The Inquisition introduced into medieval jurisprudence the institution of defense counsel, multi-institutionality, the jury function, and the possibility of early dismissal for good behavior. It also enabled the accused to challenge the impartiality of the judge.

The Inquisition was a beautiful institution. Stop being retarded. Go read books.
If I find some time I will reply to the rest. Witch burning is a protestant meme, the Crusades were just and beautiful wars, paedophilia is a secular meme to attack the church. LEARN FUCKING HISTORY.