American democracy Quote by Jonathan Kirsch

“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.”

— Jonathan Kirsch

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is…

— Florence Luscomb

“The similarities between the Inquisition interrogation regime and the role of the C.I.A. in the twenty-first century are chilling.”

— Melvin A. Goodman

“There is no doubt that the Inquisition discouraged free thinking and inhibited change in Spain.”

— Edward A. Hudson

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever…

— Edward Kennedy

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral…

— Guenter Lewy

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...”

— Jonathan Kirsch

“...the workings of the Inquisition did not fundamentally change over its six-hundred-year history. The Inquisition was a machine with interchangeable parts, just as its…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of…

— Michael Coren