The Holy Inquisition


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The Holy Inquisition was a very successful institution created by the Holy Roman Catholic Church for the purpose of suppressing widespread heresy common in Europe and the United States during the 13th-20th Centuries.

The people responsible for seeking out and convicting heretics fell to a number of Holy Inquisitor. Inquisitors were very sleuthy individuals. Think of them as a defenders of Midieval truthiness. They could smell the communion with the Devil from hundreds of miles away. An inquisitor's instinct was so great, that they never convicted an innocent person never knowingly convicted an innocent person.

The Accused
Often it was both, those who easily gave in to their lustful and sexual desires, and the easily corruptible, who became agents of Satan. Because the Inquisitors started looking for these traits alone, heretics started taking many different forms to evade God's wrath. Some of them are described in better detail below.

Witches And Warewolves
The workings of witches and warewolves in the Inquisition era were the main cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence, and liberalism. Because of their awesome power (often a gift from fornicating with Satan (or a Lutheran)), witches and warewolves had to be taken with the utmost caution.

Scientists
This group of heretics was less obvious, but Scientists were just as virulent in the decaying of a soul as the others. They came up with a number of Ridiculous Theories and Notions, that challenged the universe as we think God would want us know it. Poisonous thoughts such as "the Earth rotates around the Sun, "The Earth is round", and "poor sanitation causes sickness" were all conceived by scientists.

Jews
Jews are by nature heretical, for they deny the existance of Jesus. All Christians wanted to do was "complete" their Jewish neighbors by bringing them to faith in Jesus Christ. Unfortunately for many Jews, the Devil's grasp was too tight, and these Jews remained unrepentent and unconverted.

The Inquisition Trial
Because Satan empowered heretics with extra cleaverness and resistance to pain, drastic measures were taken by the Inquisitors to aquire a confession. For it seemed that no heretic would freely admit to being one.

Enhanced Interrogation

 * See main article: Enhanced interrogation

Notable Heretics

 * Galileo
 * Joan of Arc