Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:30:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]>
Is the forced-labor in the 'Inquisition-suspended period' (1774-1779) what Alfredo De Mello refers; when he MISTAKENLY compares the Goa-inquisition to Stalin's regime? Mario adds: I agree, but how can anyone be simply "mistaken" about this? Any comparison of the Inquisition, bad as it was, with Stalin's pogroms would be patently absurd. Regardless of the source, the Inquisition had a few thousand victims at the most; Stalin's victims numbered in the tens of millions, more than double Hitler's millions and comparable only to Mao in China. Some argue that Hitler was the most diabolical because he was more organized and deliberate in his attempted genocide and targeted infants and children as well as adults and the elderly, whereas the victims of Stalin and Mao were more indirect due to various politically motivated atrocities including deliberate famine and exposure and imprisonment.
