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“Compared with the persecution of heresy in Europe from 1227 to 1492, the persecution of Christians by Romans in the first three centuries after Christ was a mild and humane procedure. Making every allowance required of an historian and permitted to a Christian, we must rank the Inquisition, along with the wars and persecutions of our time, as among the darkest blots on the record of mankind, revealing a ferocity unknown in any beast.”
Will Durant, The Age of Faith, 784.
The point
The Spanish Inquisition from 1227-1492 represents one of history's darkest records of human persecution, revealing a ferocity unknown in beasts.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Sobering · Historical
To tell aloud
under a minute · 74 words