The Deadly History of the Spanish Inquisition

Dive deep into the truth behind the Spanish Inquisition with our latest video, "From Cohabitation to Forced Conversion." Unravel misconceptions, explore its origins, methods, and its role in shaping Spanish history. Let's uncover the reality beyond the myths!
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[@ghaznavid]

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[@breadmoth6443]

nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

the spanish inquisition would still be around if they'd had trained drop bears as inquisitors.

[@Burgo361]

I was way too slow to say this, I guess I wasn't ready for the Spanish Inquisition

[@4362mont]

No-one does.

[@chcknpie04]

Our chief weapon is fear!

[@COSMOKRAT_616]

We apologise for all the comments about not expecting the spanish inquisition. Those responsible have been sacked.

[@brera2434]

But what about the moose!?

[@jamesindustryst]

Moose bites can be pretty nasty…

[@bogisimonsen471]

Correct but that is nothing compair to the bite of the Nine of dimonds.. ​@@jamesindustryst

[@RossTheBossTrotter]

Sincerely, Gary the Wonder LLama......

[@daydays12]

I should hope so. The lack of empathy is appalling

[@gregbors8364]

I wasn’t expecting so many comments about not expecting the Spanish Inquisition

[@JamesNoBrakes]

This was unexpected.

[@K8E666]

Well, no one expects it….

[@michaelgallagher3640]

I knew it was coming.

[@jon9021]

We all know nobody expects it!

[@HarryNicNicholas]

nobody expects, oh dear...

[@juanlapuente833]

I wasn't expecting this objectivity

[@adriangarrido8745]

Thank you Simon for sharing some knowledge about the Dark Legend that has been placed on Spain for centuries now.

[@arlesthegreat]

‘The Spanish Inquisition wasn’t as bad as you think! And now for a message from today’s sponsor: the Spanish inquisition!!’

[@madness8556]

ROTFLMFAO 😅😅😅😅

[@Germanicus2415]

Spanish inquisition was actually pretty tame compared to the inquisition in England or protestant countries.

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

Yep, and the witch thing didn't last long either because that was stupid mainly

[@sizanogreen9900]

I was not expecting that.

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

@@sizanogreen9900 Yep, history has many lies and hidden truths

[@horizonkage]

Catholics just being Catholics. That is, violent liars when they have power. Let's not return to this.

[@AmonAnon-vw3hr]

Wait till you hear the truth about life under a caliphate.

[@gjergjcamaj5770]

Finally an honest overview of the spanish inquisition.

[@stephendavies6949]

I wasn't expecting that

[@teknoaija1762]

As honest as any catholic apology video.After all,catholic church has had its controversies again and again.Do you trust their child rape records?O h,there aren t any.

[@davedavid7061]

It would make a smashing movie

[@thegood9]

no inquisition is a good inquisition.

[@carlkamuti]

13:50 You got your maths wrong, 0.015% of 87,000 would have been 13 people. The true percentage of death sentences is 1.5%

[@maytheus]

Came here to say the same thing. Errata like this makes the rest of the information less reliable. They really need to work on accuracy in the Whistlerverse. Where is Lorelei to call out these blunders?

[@Asiago9]

Was probably just forgetting to multiply by 100, leaving it in decimal instead of percentage, not that big of a mistake

[@Southlander1000]

@@maytheus I'll let you in on a secret about historians: a significant number of us are very poor at math. Don't let it throw you.

[@timotheos8289]

It’s a simple mistake but a HUGE one!

[@docverit2668]

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[@hughjass1044]

I never expected to learn so much new about The Spanish Inquisition!

[@raewren]

Nobody expects…

[@b3ans4eva]

I’ll bring the comfy chair.

[@charlenebaganzmoore]

Um. So why couldn't people be Jewish or Muslim or goddess/God worshippers. Elizabeth didn't care what you did behind closed doors just as long as you were faithful to the crown. She did not even want to kill Mary.

[@raewren]

@@charlenebaganzmoore Elizabeth was Queen of England, not Spain. She really didn’t have much to play in this in the long run. But her older sister was a demon. It’s a good thing my ancestor had children before Bloody Mary had him executed.

[@macmcelveen1241]

I love the teleprompter reflection every time i watch.

[@justme2848]

I never noticed it until you mentioned it but yeah it's there 😂

[@CasperInkyMagoo]

Where?

[@justme2848]

@@CasperInkyMagoo in his glasses if you zoom in and look at his glasses you can see the teleprompter

[@CasperInkyMagoo]

@@justme2848 it looks like the reflection of the same type of wall that’s to his right.

[@fellipecanal]

Probably is a stripbox light with a grid. In old days (2007) I worked at one university that teaches journalism. They had a studio, the teleprompter stayed below the camera, with the face to ceiling. In front of the camera had a glass to bend the light of the teleprompter to the eyes of the student. The letter of the teleprompter doesn't appear to the camera, It was this way to student read the text while look directly to the camera. In journalism when you look directly to the camera give a sensation the reporte is talking directly to you. Whit new tech I don't know how is the procedure today, but I doubt is much different.

[@arpan9937]

You can also cover the Goan Inquisition. It's a rather unexplored topic of history, but the things perpetuated by it were rather horrifying.

[@sendthis9480]

So is the Muslim Conquest of Iberian Peninsula. Nobody talks about that. That’s kind of the precursor to all of these: inquisition, crusades, reconquista, etc.

[@azmike3572]

Just doesn't have the same ring..."Nobody expects the Goan Inquisition!"

[@HarryNicNicholas]

that wasn't expected.

[@Stephanie-mx2cr]

The PT inquisition, the Captivity of Catholics by Tipu Sultan in Srirangapatnam, the Shivaji Wars and the exodus of Goan refugees to Mangalore - that area has so much neat history but is never popular enough to discuss!

[@killahp123]

​@@Stephanie-mx2cr because europe still has to take a few dozen thousands, it would go down less chill with people if they knew what their guests' ancestors did, the last time around. Idc either way, to be frank. Sins of the father and all that

[@comettamer]

The Spanish Inquisition is also where the term "holding ones feet to the fire" comes from. Thr most famous victim of this particular punishment was the last grandmaster of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay. He was tortured this way to gain the location of the Templar treasure, as well as because Phillip IV was worried the Templars had gained too much power and influence.

[@anthonyhastings5961]

When he went into his trial, wasn't he wheeled in with a box on his knees with his foot bones in it? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

[@tomascabezonortega911]

But Jacques de Molay was FRENCH, killed by the FRENCH inquisition by order of the FRENCH king Philip IV.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

*The Spanish Inquisition* : _What a show !_

[@the80hdgaming]

Thank you for bringing up The History of The World part one...

[@pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC]

It's all I could think about the entire video lol

[@peterkirby1753]

Great. Now I have that song stuck in my head 🤣

[@crimsonking440]

Let's begin The inquisition Look out, sin! I know you're wishing That we'd go away But the inquisitions here And it's here to stay

[@brandenmanuel2037]

Lol! I was gonna say that

[@richardbrewis436]

In depth video Into the Shadows🤗. Can't wait for the next one!

[@kikofriastenza9876]

I definitely wasn't expecting this video to make a defense in favor of the Spanish Inquisition.

[@eadweard.]

Some truths just shouldn't be told.

[@kikofriastenza9876]

@@eadweard. Nah, I'm happy history is started to be told the right way.

[@eadweard.]

@@kikofriastenza9876 Oh maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying you shouldn't say the SI weren't so bad, even if it's true.

[@kikofriastenza9876]

@@eadweard. I think we are misunderstanding each other. I try yo say that I like the fact someone gives factual arguments about the SI instead of portraying them as the children of Darth Sidious. Edit: now that I've read my comment again... yeah I've phrased it pretty wrongly. I tried to say that I like the fact that efforts are being made to tell history correctly.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@kikofriastenza9876 Not in this video.

[@shantidoesntexist]

Unexpectedly, the comment section is exactly what i expected it to be.

[@Kaltagstar96]

Honestly? I really find it interesting that the jails of the Spanish Inquisitions might be in the running for the most pleasant prison of all time (especially for the time period). But then you remember that there's a very good reason why they have the brutal reputation that they do.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

Jewish colonizers? Why you filled with hate?

[@ignaciomoreno9655]

​@@UserUser45654 Inevitably? Colonizers? Do you mean the ones that founded a kingdom around three-four thosand years before Mohammed was born?

[@gonzalosalgadogamboa3352]

Quite accurate, fair and balanced work. Congrats and greetings from Spain

[@personaldove]

@@UserUser45654 Here we go with the JOOZ.

[@mikepalmer2219]

@@UserUser45654Wow we’re you there to witness these things? Amazing.

[@geordiecanuck2696]

The Inquisition. All I can hear in my head is Mel Brookes' musical number from History of the World Part one... not the most sombre of recantations.😂

[@SeanTR420]

We know you're wishin' That we'd go awaaaaaaaay

[@pohldriver]

When de Torquemada came up, all I could think about was "face it. You can't Totquemada anything!" I think many of us need to watch this video. All I know about the Spanish Inquisition is that they put on musical numbers, had synchronized swimming nuns, and they tortured jews.

[@marksnyder8022]

Auto de fe, what's an Auto de fe? It's what you shouldn't have done but you did anyway! 🥳

[@aq5426]

Same!

[@russward2612]

That's the only song I'd do for karaoke.

[@RosemarieJaeger-vt3ql]

Starting to love this channel ❤

[@patrickdurham8393]

He has about 500 other channels you need to check out

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Thank you, Simon, for telling the truth. I've been waiting decades for a program such as yours to tell the truth.

[@johnkrol9649]

Gross name.

[@applegal3058]

Yes, it may not have been as bad as previously reported, it is still disgusting and horrendous abuse towards people just for their beliefs. Today we would call it genocide and humanitarian crimes. Nothing to be proud of. I'm truly surprised people align themselves with religious organizations who have such evil pasts.

[@jjohnson796]

The truth that people were tortured for witch craft by a ….oh never mind but putting a nice spin on a pretty horrid history still makes it a pretty horrid history. Saying the other guy was worse doesn’t make it any better. It was a backwards brutal age.

[@Talisguy]

​@@johnkrol9649 Gross, racist comments elsewhere too.

[@Talisguy]

​@@johnkrol9649Judging by some of his other comments on this channel, his approval should be a damning indictment of this video.

[@neo-didact9285]

We didn't expect you to make a video about this!

[@patrickdurham8393]

No one expects the Inquisition video

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

I believe any human being tortured will say anything to stop it😢

[@Michalosnup]

I wasn't expecting this video

[@Herr_Artago]

Great video, it's really nice to see an English person telling all the facts about the Spanish Inquisition instead of spreading the black legend, which unfortunately most people around the world, including many Spaniards, still believe. By the way, in Spanish we don't pronounce the h and hu is pronounced like an English w, so the correct pronunciation for Huerta is werta.

[@residentzero]

It seems in medieval Spain the H and F were exchangeable "Fazer", "Hacer", "Facto", "acto", from Latin, then Arabic influence, etc. Many changes have affected the language that's why the H exists even though silent, it is a relic of a time when it was a sound

[@personaldove]

As an ex muslim, the Inquisition is strikingly similar to Sharia law. As someone who barely survived Iran I sympathize with people of that time.

[@fett713akamandodragon5]

Glad you made it through. The Christian Nationalists here in the US would like to take us back to these times, all the while yelling about Sharia Law and not seeing they want nearly the same things.

[@Avogadros_number]

@@fett713akamandodragon5great point. Religious fundamentalism is strikingly similar regardless of the religion.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

​​@@fett713akamandodragon5which Christian nationalists would do that in the United States. Let's remember that there is no dominant Christian sect in the United States. Most people who are labeled Christian nationalists simply want to return part of our culture to the 1950s noting that under false neutrality, the United States government is pushing atheism and cultural Marxism.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

I doubt your claim to be an ex-Muslim. Based upon the fact that no Muslim or even ex-muslim I have ever met calls Sharia "Sharia Law", since the word Sharia already means law and any actual Muslim knows saying "Sharia Law" is incorrect and will almost always correct non-muslims who say it.

[@RG-sv4qb]

​@@bipolarminddroppings That's like saying someone who says PIN number obviously has never owned a bank account 😉

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Thanks for posting the interesting content.

[@gavinhudson5251]

Wow, I wasn't expecting that.

[@OnigiriKewn]

As a spaniard I have to add that we have also helped a lot in perpetuating this myth about the grim and terrible inquisition that killed and tortured left and right. And it is because it has become kind of a touristic attraction with many museums dedicated to torture and the Inquisition.

[@pricklypear7516]

Salem, Massachusetts, USA, home of the infamous Witch Trials, has likewise capitalized on horror tourism.

[@AnthonyHermo-fu6ft]

There was a other nations around the world worst but pick Spain for others reason let look at united States and others but at time it was not named Spain but details later it was not the people it other powers and to many wars that was uncontrollably there in Europe and the new world there to this but why that details later

[@Zak6959]

Thanks for the video.

[@Razgriz619]

This was very informative thank you. This also corroborates a book I was reading.

[@the80hdgaming]

Ngl... The way my spine feels right now, I'd give the rack a go for a while... 😂

[@darrena2625]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@ryanparker4996]

Thankyou factboy this was a cool video

[@andrewlee1066]

Good info!!!

[@diyeana]

Nobody expe ... wait, you've heard this one before?

[@Styphon]

It was quite expected, for a change

[@omninex6040]

Why is this not on Spotify I wanna listen to this at work

[@Nylak-Otter]

Do you only have access to Spotify at work? Just play it on KZbin, close the screen and put on headphones. You don't have to watch it.

[@Avogadros_number]

@@Nylak-Otteryou need KZbin premium to listen to it while your phone is locked. Most people don’t have KZbin premium.

[@adamtaylor6126]

I wasn't expecting this episode.

[@markborn5293]

Excellent article!

[@thefella3891]

I must say Simon I certainly was not expecting the Spanish inquisition!

[@timothyclark-sl4il]

Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR!

[@Styphon]

That is entirely in line with the prisons used

[@katherinecollins4685]

Well researched

[@jan-agelundman5435]

But, what about the use of 'The Comfy Chair'..?

[@hughjass1044]

Or the soft cushions?

[@azmike3572]

@@hughjass1044 "Confess, woman!"

[@markvoelker6620]

@@azmike3572Confess! Confess!! CONFESS!!!

[@azmike3572]

@@markvoelker6620 Okay, okay--I confess...that I love the comments!!

[@markvoelker6620]

@@azmike3572 Comedy genius for these hard times.

[@BuzzkillZone]

So I'm noticing the pointy hats of the accused in multiple pictures. Is that the origin of the standard "Wizard's" hat? or the Dunce cap?

[@hartfartpoptart]

I believe it's connected with a commonly worn Jewish hat.

[@tomascabezonortega911]

It is a penitent cap. Think about it as a modern day orange suit.

[@femurforreal]

Nooooo! Not...THE COMFY CHAIR!

[@slidey1788]

Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons

[@arisaga822]

I never expected this video

[@jaalsburg]

As vilified that the Spanish Inquisition was, weird statement, I've read that the German states were much more brutal and prevalent.

[@1Thomkro]

Saw the alert, literally tapped as it appeared, cleverly I thought "I'll make a python pun, because no-one else will think of that so quickly...." Clever sods aren't ya?

[@travisj05]

Thinking of yourself with a video like this? Pretty telling.

[@1Thomkro]

@@travisj05 What can I say, I'm a very naughty boy 🤷‍♂️

[@travisj05]

@@1Thomkro LOL the best reply possible. Touché my friend. Sincerely hope you enjoy your weekend.

[@1Thomkro]

@@travisj05 and to you sir :)

[@DenUitvreter]

You must be very inquisitive.

[@bellamaz1972]

This is an informative and educational video, but I kept hearing as its background soundtrack Mel Brooks’ song from History of the World Part I … “The Inquisition 🎶…”

[@summerwell8262]

Thank you, thank you, thank you: at last a truthful account of the historical Spanish Inquisition! As a spaniard history-buff I am glad to watch these facts spread in a popular English speaking channel 🫡👏👏👏

[@1marcelo]

Spaniards were pretty awful though

[@summerwell8262]

@@1marcelo of course they were, as much as everyone else though. But way way less than the Black Legend propaganda says so and was the most progressive judicial system of its time, as this video explains so well.

[@1marcelo]

@@summerwell8262 I don't know about their justice system but they seem to have been pretty backwards in everything while they were expelling the jesuits and Arabs, and also committing horrendous massacres in the Americas. I don't think everyone else was awful on the same scale.

[@emomuzz5883]

I am not expecting Simon to do a vid on The Comfy Chair.

[@stormycat0905]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@thejuanderful]

"Five of the twenty-nine women died while in prison" Twelve seconds later... "Their prisons were actually good compared to their contemporaries!"

[@marksnyder8022]

"I would like to give your accommodations 5 stars, but I cannot approve of your checkout procedure."

[@pietersleijpen3662]

Which is saying something of their contemporaries. Just because it is better doesn't mean it is good for your health to be in one.

[@serfandterf]

He didn't say women

[@maxstrong6915]

If 5 out of 29 women died in prison that means that 0.00023% of prisoners died

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

@@pietersleijpen3662 Agreed. It's like choosing hanging over impalement.

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

Thanks Simon! It’s not every day that we can see the truth being offered (for free) in such a matter as the “leyenda negra” that is even believed here in Spain. I remember having read somewhere that in the 1610s, while 30 persons were burnt in Spain, 7’000 “witches” were burnt in Germany… And we can remember the Cathares as you did, or the Vaudois (or Walesians), massacred by the Duke of Savoy in my country of origin…

[@pvtj0cker]

Heretics torturing other heretics for being heretics. It's a strange world...

[@arlesthegreat]

But when you put it like that…not so bad. Right?

[@thepeskytraveller3870]

As you mentioned, we can not judge what they considered fair back then by today's standards of humanity. The real question is - if western human rights is somehow over ridden by non-western thinking, should we expect the same humane treatment?

[@eldoolittle]

The Spanish Inquisition was Western thinking. So was chattel slavery So we're the Nazis. So was Apartheid. The idea that human rights are only something valued in a modern Eurocentic world view is myopic both to the legacy of other global people who learned barbarism from the colonizers and the history of Europe and the USA less than a lifetime ago.

[@reggiefurlow1]

Mel Brooks is a genius

[@raewren]

You can’t Torquemada anything!

[@morbosmeatshack]

Straight into this from the notification, unrelated though, where did you get those glasses?

[@sergetheijspartner2005]

I did not expect this video

[@peterc4082]

At the end he has to still condemn it because of politics. He may as well have condemned all of society of that time.

[@giantred]

Oh, what a charming way to spend my lunch break

[@richardpatton2502]

To be fair, Torquemada went in to “standardize” trials, sentences and torture methods. Because some of the inquisitors were going absolutely wild with horrific tortures. And with that, worsening the relations with the local populace. I’m not, in any way, defending him. Just pointing out some common misconceptions All the best to everyone

[@rawilliams5881]

Fun fact: thanks to Torquemada, the Church was forbidden to draw blood during torture or execution. Hence the emphasis on the rack, hanging, and burning at the stake.

[@brandonspears6996]

I think I remember reading a Dan brown novel mentioning the cathars

[@bonnieprincecharlie6248]

Were the statistics mentioned in the video including the spanish inquisition in the new world? From what I heard the inquisition there was pretty brutal with thousands being tortured or forced into galley slavery, although I do remeber it saying that very few people were actually executed by them, although this does not mean that they didn't destroy a lot of people's lives.

[@13sempere]

In the Americas it was hardly active.

[@martinmaynard141]

@@13sempere mostly true since the "natives" were outside it's control. I remember once being at a birthday lunch where the person sitting next to me had a bad case of Dunning-Kruger and insisted that "millions" of natives were put to death. When I challenged this I got the classic DK defence "Well in my opinion ..." The biggest trial was in fact in Mexico city in the 17th Century and the vicitms were homosexual men!

[@eddifabricio3750]

12 died, all Protestants... According to records available.

[@tomascabezonortega911]

50 deaths in 3 centuries. Mostly colonizers. And the General Inquisitor was Bartolome de las Casas, an overall supercool dude.

[@82dorrin]

I was expecting a lot of comments about how no one expected the Spanish Inquisition. As I expected, I was not disappointed.

[@CivilizedWarrior]

Nonsense! No one expects comments not expecting the Spanish Inquisition!

[@MrNutt_]

Never expected this

[@borjagines7424]

Nice work. Its dificult to find an anglospeaker that doesnt follow the difamation of the spanish empires! 👍

[@mastercontrol469]

History is written by the victors, and those in paid service to the victors, remember that.

[@user-vy6kk9or4i]

Archeologist calls bs

[@defenderofpoodles5606]

This is the best…and only…defense of the Spanish Inquisition I have seen so far.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

There is no defense of Christians being judge and jury over others for practicing other religions without harming other folks.

[@Talisguy]

The fact that they were methodical, rigorous, evidence -based and relatively polite about burning people alive for practicing other religions in an area that had been happily and peacefully multi-cultural and religiously pluralistic until very recently honestly makes it creepier. It brings to mind the machinery of the Holocaust.

[@daffyf6829]

​@@TalisguyI think an important difference is that the Nazis tried to hide the Holocaust, burning records and evidence etc, while the inquisitors were fastidious in their record keeping. Which is to say, the inquisitors did not think they were doing anything wrong while the Nazis did. Intent is important, especially when judging events in the past.

[@xxxxxxxxxx02]

@@Talisguy it was never happily multicultural lol. you people live in a fantasy world.

[@angelabennett8245]

Still. Any form of torture is ridiculous when forcing people to convert to Catholicism, or forced to confess to being a witch, a stupid idea, but people back then were fanatical in their superstition. Why else would Catholics be hated like they were and still are? The past was the worst.

[@GhostM4]

I think this is going to be a great video to fall asleep to

[@jacobdurborow5583]

This video was the last thing i expected

[@joaomarreiros4906]

We study this here in school, Portugal, so we know the difference of legend and reality, our Reconquista was brutal and slow, and downright genocide, because the Moors had forced half of the population up north to better control us, and people were naturally resentful, entire cities were levelled, only the Algarve was more or less spared, but because the numbers of Jews and Moors were reduced. Religious wars are a waste of time.

[@tamarinmangold1414]

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

[@joaomarreiros4906]

@@tamarinmangold1414 We are all survivors of war, my grandfathers family was from East Prussia, German. Excellent quote.

[@SpaceMarine500]

@@tamarinmangold1414 War does determine who is right. It's infused into all the history books you study.

[@UserUser45654]

It’s a war of decolonization. The inquisition was meant to root out stay behinds who could help the Moors and Jews re-colonize the country. Remember North Africa is just a short distance from the peninsula.

[@mitseraffej5812]

Religion itself is a waste of time. Wasting the precious and short lived hiccup of consciousness between oblivions that we call life, in an effort to convince oneself that eternal life awaits is insanity.

[@yanlumotungoe2361]

The crusades and the inquisitions can never,on the least degree,be compared to Islamic jihad that continues to this very day

[@teknoaija1762]

What about massive child rape culture?

[@chargree]

They can and have been compared to it. It is rather simple and many similarities are too obvious to even rattle off without sounding flippant and risking the eager aggressiveness of the “Mr. Obvious” police(people who look for people they can criticize for sharing information they feel is not worth their time because “everyone” supposedly already knows it). There are many differences that provide an interesting contrast between the movements. This only makes the topic of discussing all 3 movements together more compelling and lends the discussion much validity. Listen, it is likely that we are expressing subjective opinions, even though we might be using objective data to inform those opinions, so dont take my comment as antagonistic. I do not desire to just marginalize your comment. It just successfully inspired me to explore the idea and I appreciate that. We could easily keep this going and share all of the nuances available to maybe gain some additional insight together. I would be interested to know your experience and process that led you to the comment you made.

[@daydays12]

why not?

[@tomascabezonortega911]

The Crusades were literally Jihads. It is the exact translation.

[@ernesto906]

Thank you so much for helping rehabilitating the history of the Hispanic people

[@roverrover3233]

How,about doing the history of the rif mountains Morocco

[@thomasi4551]

Can we see the insignia of the necromancer?

[@marksnyder8022]

It's a purple bump. No, that's the Neck Romancer.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Iam Spaniard this video in English is the best of all views for me about Inquisition of my country ; great video historycally true and comonnsense with serious and real.sources not under Spanish Black Legend and in orher ocaaions xenophobic whiff

[@mackenziemoore5088]

Didn't think I'd hear a quote from a hometown university journal in this one lol

[@alexwallach7683]

Nobody expects Simon Whistler to go more than a week without creating yet another KZbin channel. 🤣

[@4362mont]

Doing the torture, despite any apologetics, is still wrong, and doing it overseas does not make it less Spanish (or less American-at-Guantanamo).

[@arlesthegreat]

C’mon bro, you know it was pretty chill. Relatively speaking…

[@4362mont]

@@arlesthegreat Don't think you can salami-slice away my objections to the practice, dustant cuz.

[@DenUitvreter]

Both Dutch Protestants and catholics revolted against the religious persecution by the Spanish. They had every right to do so, not just because of it's immense slaughter and torture, but also because it went against the Dutch freedom of conscience. That wasn't propaganda, that was an experience the British didn't have. Those were just safely on their island being declared 'protestant' by their king, the Briish never had to protest the Spanish Inquistion or blood councils.

[@korstmahler]

This video is weirdly pro-catholic and pro-inquisition. Whole lotta apologetics going on.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@korstmahler That's an international trend, probably coming from the USA's racialized hisoriography. Just like portraying the Dutch revolt/80 years war for independence as just another religious war, it wasn't, it was a war for religious tolerance which the protestants could do when they ruled and the catholics couldn't. The 80-years war was probably the first war in which propaganda played a significant role, but the Inquisition part was very real. The fact that is was highly legalized in an orderly manner and did mild sanctioning too doesn't mean it wouldn't have been terrible for true protestants. Large scale prosecution of witches wasn't very protestant either, the English loved it but they do no represent protestantism of that time because they never protested anything. In the Netherlands witch prosecution almost ended with the end of catholic rule.

[@wessel754]

This is a video about the Spanish inquisition in Spain, not the causes for the Dutch revolt. Some dutch cities councils joined the revolt (similar to the earlier bauern krieg in HRR) because they want to maintain financial autonomy. The religious argument was a convenient cover. Main issue here: revolt is never legit, thus a black legend is reinforced. That's propaganda. Replacing the black legend with a white legend indeed won't suffice either however. In the early days of the revolt, with the crisis of legitimacy in the low countries, their leaders sought a replacement sovereign state-figure: the duke of Leicester, the duke of Anjou. This all failed. Tensions also were felt on the British isles. Don't forget the threat of the massive Spanish Armada in 1588, the main reason why the British hence forwards built a grand navy.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@wessel754 The Spanish installed an inquisition, and later the council of troubles or blood council, doing about the same. That ended up in English propaganda, and was quite an accurate image of inquisition by Spanish rule, technically that is not the Spanish Inquisiton. That is what the English would have got if the Armada hadn't been fenced off or the Dutch not blocking the invasion troops. Dutch cities wanted to maintain autonomy, they claimed their ancient rights and privileges which included dealing with religious matters themselves, i.e. having religious tolerance and no inquisition. The medieval taxation not fitting an economy of traders and increased to finance the war and prosecution of their fellow people didn't help, but the freedom of conscience and therefor how to believe in god was codified in the Union of Utrecht. The Spanish were highly surprised about how unpopular the public torture and burnings at the stake were in the Netherlands, also in catholic eras. In Spain those drew huge enthousiastic crowds. There was just very little appetite for imposing religion.

[@wessel754]

@@DenUitvreter Whether the propaganda effective or accurate is, is speculation. The black and white myths are still very dominant. Stateformation is a process made by elites. In 17th century there were no free elections or modern democracy. Within the 17th century republic there was an intern dispute between gormanists and arminians; predetermination or free will. This dispute got politicized between Oldenbarnevelt and Maurits, and pamfleteert amongst the crowd. When war resumed in 1621, the military odds in 1629 were in favour of the durch republic, peace negotiations initiated by Philips IV stranded. No public catholic worship (thus so far the argument of religious tolerance). The Schelde canal remained closed, because the economic position of Holland could not be harmed.

[@washingtoncommie2991]

I watched the Mel Brooks song The Inquisition to prepare myself. I’m expecting The Spanish Inquisition.

[@82dorrin]

So the usual punishments were the equivalent of "go to your room and think about what you did"?

[@barttheraven]

The Spanish Inquisition was awesome actually.

[@eadweard.]

"Not as bad as commonly believed" isn't the same as "awesome".

[@maverick7291]

The inquisition and church courts of law were nothing compared to how brutal secular courts were and even sharia(even today's sharia in many muslim majority countries)

[@pyrodoll2422]

I wasn't expecting that 😐

[@Styphon]

This does not diminish my enjoyment of King Diamond's "The Eye"

[@trishmcl9055]

This is why America was founded on freedom of religion. Because in Europe people were being forced to become Catholic than Protestant then Catholic again then Protestant and on and on depending on who was sitting on the throne.

[@admdubya2107]

You’ll note our little error though. Freedom of religion. We gave them freedom to get as big and powerful as they please, do as they please, hold offices, make laws in their ways. The church is bigger than the government. We really needed was from *from* religion.

[@angh18]

America wasn't founded on Freedom of Religion. First Nation's people wouldn't have had to have their hair cut, children seperated from their families to be brain-washed to rid them of their 'Pagan' beliefs, in Religious run torture 'orphanages/schools'. There wouldn't be this 'Muslim Hate', happening now. Back in the African Slavery times, the slaves were forced into Christian belief. Infact a Bible for Slave-Owners' was published and sold - with 'selected' sections from the Bible, to be read to the slaves.

[@DenUitvreter]

No, the Pilgrim Fathers actually fled the freedom of reliigion in the Dutch Republic, the fact that they went back to England for the crossing doesn't change that. They were prudes who feared the influence on their children of protestants less uptight about the naughty bits.

[@AmonAnon-vw3hr]

@admdubya2107 no, lol. You only survive tiday because of a society created by religious people.

[@admdubya2107]

@@AmonAnon-vw3hr Christianity was born in the already existing Roman Empire. The “survival” parts of society have been built by scientists, engineers, doctors, etc etc etc that may have happened to be Christian or Muslim but didn’t learn farming or trigonometry from the Bible. As for me specifically…I could go live in a tent in the woods I don’t need any society to keep me alive.

[@Apollo_Sierra]

For the time, the "interrogation" process was quite reasonable, not wanting blind confessions, but actual corroborable proof. It was still a heinous act, dont get me wrong, but for its time, quite reasonable.

[@ken481959]

"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.” James Madison Still relevant today.

[@AliceBowie]

What's the painting in the thumbnail, and who painted it? Does anyone know?

[@BurneraccountXD69]

I wasn't expecting a video on the Spanish Inquisition.

[@darlenefraser3022]

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@Grassy_Gnoll]

You forgot ruthless efficiency, and…

[@heinrichkornelius]

Could you do one on the Portuguese Inquisition, please?

[@johnhaworth7034]

No one, expects the Portuguese inquisition!

[@heinrichkornelius]

@@johnhaworth7034 true, but it was there.

[@thebiggestoneyouveverhad]

Watching videos about the Spaniah Inquisition in The Comfy Chair!!!....

[@jesseberg3271]

The idea of "secular authorities" is an anachronism. There was no separation of Church and state at the time and place. The Church was merely another aspect of the still semi feudal early-modern state.

[@Vishanti]

THIS!

[@acupofwhitetea]

There never is, the secular authorities are only secular by name but they are practically loyal and aligned to the church officials. The Clery already have everyone so loyal the townsfolk are practically their lackeys. The Inquisitors can get their "death punishment" and not lift a finger because they know everyone will do it for them. Which makes sense since the clergy have the influence to instilled that train of thought in the first place.

[@RlsIII-uz1kl]

Now we're living in a kind of techno-feudal anarcho-tyrannical transnationalist socialist/global socio-fascist era in which religion/cultism has returned within state and that religion/cult is known as Hegelian cultism/woke cultism.

[@nicksmeltzer3511]

So we're just going to ignore all the deaths over seas due to the inquisition than?

[@Vishanti]

yeah there was 0 mention of Inquisition offices in the Philippines, Mexico, and Guatemala. I wonder how much research really went into the script.

[@Bill-jc1fy]

then

[@addicted2monster88]

Perhaps a 2nd part? Unless they've covered that in a previous video

[@acupofwhitetea]

From the Philippines, to be honest, there are barely any records of brutal inquisition. Since we'll, the Spanish wrote everything, disregarding the forced conversions, military backed missionaries​ where the clergy get all the money and practically runs the town, forcing the natives to burn the god statues and even poop on them. They will just burn everything if we resist, and claim one item they looted is a miracle. Most of the records after that are religious boot-licking/white washing, saying we should be thankful to be "saved and civilized", even if it is by gunpoint. But then you'll be conditioned to love Spain later on. It's either convert/comply with Spanish rule or get a miserable life with a ton of taxes, no support, no documents, little access to food (the Spanish also took farm lands they need and gave it to their supporters), no security, and little access to education. It stuck in our psyche for generations. It still does. @@Vishanti

[@nicksmeltzer3511]

@@Bill-jc1fy no I wasn't referring to time but the video script. Than is like saying if that is the case. Which certainly makes more grammatical sense than then which means at that time.

[@Am-ih5nf]

Do the Goa Inquisition: the Portugese inquisition of Goa, India, and (I think) Kerala!

[@Andrew_Haase]

“…and then the Inquisition became more proactive…” - haha, that’s a diplomatic understatement if I’ve ever heard one

[@jasonpalacios1363]

Let's not forget that the Spanish Inquisition spread into their colonies in Latin America and The Philippines.

[@Vishanti]

the Inquisition didn't end in Mexico until 1820! That's extremely recent.

[@kevinbarrios5718]

And they dont mention American Spanish Inquisition was far more gruesome and malevolent