From: wthyde1953@gmail.com
Don wrote:
> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>
>>> "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvitch
>>> Hard cover 294 pages from DAW Books $27 US.
>>> Well I may have read this before but it was a romp.
>>> Ben Aaronvitch with his Rivers of London series seldom disappoints
>>> Amongst Our Weapons is another tale of Peter Grant in the Folly
>>> and out to Manchester where he releases, but no that would be
>>> telling. He is a very busy sort with magic rings and heart
ripping
>>> murders. Lesley is on the scene but still being criminal in her
>>> behavior. Even our Tank-breaking wizard Nightengale is not
>>> able to handle the Spanish Inquisition's Angel of Death but
>>> Peter does and releases the Spanish woman enslaved to be
>>> the Angel.
>>
>> I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
>>
>> ...though with that title, maybe I should have.
>
> The Gaza genocide guy's father, Polish Jew Benzion Mileikowsky, alias
> Benzion Netanyahu, wrote a book on the Spanish Inquisition entitled THE
> ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN:
>
>
>
> Long story short, Sicut Judaeis prohibits Catholics from mistreating
> Jews
And the USSR had a wonderful constitution, full of respect for human rights.
Some Jews escaped the inquisition by pointing out that they had never in
fact been baptized or claimed to be Catholic. The inquisition, obedient
to the above, would then turn them over to the state, whereupon they
were expelled from Spain, which I think counts as mistreatment.
Especially as not all survived the expulsion.
This although it was known that the Jewish community in Spain dated at
least to the second century AD, and probably to some centuries BC,
arriving with the Phoenicians. A much longer time then, than those
noble Spanish who claimed Visigothic ancestry.
and prohibits Jews from positions of cultural authority over
> Catholics. The Inquisition exclusively applied only to Catholics. And,
> from a papal perspective, once a Catholic always a Catholic, until
> death.
> Did some Spanish Jews convert to Catholicism solely because they
> coveted cultural authority over Catholics? This contention creates
> controversy.
About as much controversy as the Flat Earth. But with added racism.
In the late 1300s a series of anti-Jewish acts, taxes, restrictive laws,
and outright violence, culminated in the pogroms 0f 1391 when thousands
were killed.
For once, Jewish morale broke and tens of thousands converted.
Conversions prior to this time, even under threat of violence, had been
rare.
Now, while many of these conversions were or became sincere, at least in
the second generation, only an idiot or a religious fanatic would expect
them all to have been sincere, or even most of them. The Swedish king
Gustavus Adolphus laughed at the idea that a forced conversion would be
sincere, but the Spanish were not that enlightened.
So their monstrously evil treatment by the inquisition was not in fact a
punishment for sin, but the continuation of earlier persecution by a
more formal process.
The more so as these people, freed from the restrictions under which
they had suffered, easily out-competed the old Christians, taking
leading roles in commerce, government, and even the church. Plus
marrying into many old wealthy families. Naturally this caused
resentment, and when the secret of their continuing Jewish faith got
out, as was inevitable, a special, "Spanish" inquisition was the answer.
Nor did those sincere converts escape. After a few generations of the
inquisition, having any Jewish ancestry, however remote, brought you to
the inquisition's attention. You were a "New Christian", and even the
slightest accusation of an infraction (like turning down a piece of pork
at dinner, or bathing on a Friday) could bring you to their dungeons.
As for Tolstoy, he didn't like Chekhov's plays earlier. Told him in
person that he was "even worse than Shakespeare".
William Hyde
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