Understanding the Inquisition: Hi Tariq, Thanks for responding to my post. You have jumped midway into this thread that I do not know where to start to respond to you. But let me try. I will split your two questions, as I hate reading and writing long posts. Gilbert.
From: Tariq Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To understand, does Inquisition for you, mean atrocities by the Catholic Church against other Catholics only? And therefore, atrocities by the Portuguese Colonial government, should not be categorized as "Inquisition"? Response: The thread started with the question of the inquisition being started with (SFX) St. Francis Xavier. So hopefully at least you agree that the colonial government was the physical arm that undertook much of the atrocities (and the inquisition started years after SFX). The actions of the colonial Portuguese government were like that of ANY OTHER INVADING ARMY in India. Their atrocities did not need religious sanctions. I hope you can provide a break down of the various ethnic groups that were "charged with" the ubiquitous inquisition. While some claimed that the inquisition never affected the white-skinned people, the reports recently posted on this net, point to the opposite. So there are a lot of generalizations among the specifics. Now we can say that the inquisition was at least color-blind. My main qualm against those 'scholars and authors' in the 21st century is at least make the intellectual effort to categorize the cause and effect of the actions of the 16-17 century. This is instead of using the catch-all phrase of "inquisition and heresy and blasphemy" for the 'all and sundry' as was done in centuries gone, where the vocabulary and the concepts were limited. In the case of the French physician was it the usual / sodanchem Inquisition, Heresy ani Blasphemy or was it justice for professional misconduct? Some may say 'big difference', while others may say 'same difference'. Gilbert ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
