Confused Quote by Peter Kreeft

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

“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral…

— Jonathan Kirsch

Never judge someone's sins just because they sin differently than you

— Mercy Pheona

“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

“...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

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

— Jonathan Kirsch

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made…

— Lord Acton

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the…

— Carl Sagan

“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment

— Kim Soo-hyun

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

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