Part 3: The Real Spanish Inquisition

Toledo branch of the Inquisition.  Okay, where are the blood stained torture chamber walls?  Where are the mass graves?  Where are the remnants of torture devices?  Where are the hand-written accounts of local citizen's hearing screams?  And where are the nighttime haunting poltergeist sounds of the torture chamber victims, today? 

ONE anonymous tale, refuted by the THOUSANDS of Spanish Inquisition case files

All the nightmarish accusations of the Spanish Inquisition came from one 1567 writing published in Heidelberg ... and one 1570 letter proven to be a forgery.  The letter claimed that the Inquisition targeted entire European populations for annihilation.   That was it.  There was nothing more than --- tabloid newspaper gossip.  

Of course, anti-Catholic propagandists will deceive you into thinking that numerous people witnessed horror and wrote about the Inquisition, when the truth is that people who never experienced the Inquisition wrote about it hundreds of years after 1567.  They wrote as if the horror stories which are easy to refute were still occurring hundreds of years later.  This included Voltaire.  Voltaire was an arrogantly presumptive person who like to belittle people.

The Spanish Inquisition horror story has zero physical evidence attached to it and zero documentation attached to it, as well.  It was overly theatrical pre-war propaganda for the upcoming war which intended to be a war of succession from Spain --- for the Netherlands.  It turned out to be the dreaded 80 Years War spanning from 1568 to 1648.  

Actually, the war began in 1567, when Calvinists secretly entered the Netherlands as peasants.  It was the European version of the 1968 TET Offensive of Vietnam.  Thus, Martin Luther's Protestants & John Calvin's Protestants ... along with Zwingli's Protestants ... and the Puritans who had no objection to massacring Irish Catholics on Irish land ... were the opposite of peace-loving Christians.  As a reminder, it was Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, Raymond of Pentafort, and Dominic Guzma who were the peace-loving Christians.  They brought who did bring peace to their regions of Europe in the 13th Century.  

Amongst the aforementioned saints, Raymond of Penyafort is the most forgotten.  He is underrated and unappreciated in the modern Church.  Yet, he was as much as a shaker, a mover, and a rebuilder of a church falling apart as were the Franciscans and St. Dominic.  In fact, Saint Raymond was a Dominican.  Moreover, the most influential saint of the following century would also be a Dominican.  Her name is Catherine of Siena.

Starting Point 

Did you believe in the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction?  Almost everyone did, due to the relentless propaganda promoted by the one-sided, corporate-sized media.  Yet, after hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars and years of warfare, none were found.  However, that wasn't the only fraud forced upon humanity throughout the ages. 

We now adjourn to the modern-era reputation of the Spanish Inquisition.  People have been led to believe in the horror story version of that judicial system as much as they were led to believe in the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Being that your mind probably carries a cemented conclusion about the over-exaggerated Spanish Inquisition, take a moment to answer this question:

Firstly, you can find numerous pieces of evidence to prove the existence of the Nazi German mass-murder industry, to the point of touring the gas chambers and walking past the mass grave-sites, as well as seeing photographs of all the jewelry taken from the mass-murdered Jews, Gypsies, and even Roman Catholic priests who wore metal crosses and religious medals.  Well, where can you find the evidence to support the horror-story version of the Spanish Inquisition?  

You can definitely find evidence for the 20th Century Spanish Civil War.  But what evidence can you produce about the Darth Vader version of 16th Century Spain?  The Darth Vader version turned out to be merely the pre-war propaganda of 1567, just like the pre-war propaganda of 2003.

Now, it's important to note that each individual case which was brought before the Spanish Inquisition had a case file attached to it.  Each case file was then consigned to the Spanish Inquisition Archive System.  The archive system remained well-preserved throughout the centuries.  

Decades ago, the Spanish government opened to the public the Spanish Inquisition archives.  And of course, the world renown BBC took up the Spanish government on its open invitation and payed credentialed historians to report on their findings, after scouring through the Spanish Inquisition case files.  That amounted to 356 years of case files, minus the few years when Napoleon put the Spanish Inquisition out of operation. 

Directly below is the link to the 1994 documentary on the Spanish Inquisition, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.  It's titled, the MYTH of the Spanish Inquisition, with the accent being on "myth."  I would have called the documentary the Intelligence-insulting Farce of ... or the Hyper-exaggeration of ...  or the False Light Defamation of ...  or the Entirely Distorted Image of  ... the Spanish Inquisition.   

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY-pS6iLFuc

The Inquisition, itself, comprised 20 branch offices, otherwise known as tribunals ... otherwise equal to "district courts."  The number of judges, aka Inquisitors, per tribunal was no more the two or three.   

Technically speaking, it wasn't a church court operation.  It was a secular branch of the Castile & Aragon crowns, with imperial immediacy attached to its jurisdiction.  This meant that the operators of the Inquisition had immediate recourse to and from the Spanish crown, without having to go through a chain of command.  It was equal to going straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, without having to go through district and then federal circuit appeals court.

None the less, the Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Queen Isabella, as an aid in her final war against Spain's Muslim invaders & occupiers of the previous 767 years.  That inquisition was also useful in discerning the activities of the four major knightly orders in Spain.  Thus, it was originally established to spy on the Moors and the Roman Catholic knights.  [1] Martin Luther wasn't even born, yet (1483).  [2] John Calvin was not yet born, as well (1509.)  In fact, the Spanish Inquisition was established before the births of [3] John Knox (1514), [4] Menno Simons (1496), [5] Besançon Hugues (1487), [6] Huldrych Zwingli (1484), [7] Philip Melanchthon (1497), [8] Martin Bucer (1491), [9] Andreas Karlstadt (1986), [10] Thomas Müntzer (1489), William Farel (1489), etc, etc, etc.   .  

Queen Isabella asked the pope to grant official approval of this Spanish Inquisition, so that she could use official Catholic Church theologians to judge the cases there.  These members of the Catholic Hierarchy were the final judges of each case brought before them.  Yet, the Spanish Inquisition was a State Court that was granted autonomy.  This means that laymen lawyers were also involved in investigating & presenting the cases.  None the less, Catholic theologians were the  judges.  But, they were judges in the name of the queen and NOT in the name of the Roman Catholic Church.  

There simultaneously existed the Roman Inquisition.  That WAS the official Church inquisition.  But, it didn't have attached to it the nightmarish torture chamber stories attached to the Spanish Inquisition.  This is because Spain was the great imperial power of Europe at the time, and to defeat a massive power, you must employ the use of lying propaganda and concentrate on the enemy, keeping attention away from anything or anyone else.  The goal was to outrage the citizenry into rebelling for your cause.  The citizens of the Netherlands were manipulated to rebel against Spain who was the sovereign power at the time; not Rome.

Stats

Concerning statistics, the Spanish Inquisition endured for 356 years.  Throughout the 356 year history of the Spanish Inquisition, there was an average of no more than 9 to 14 executions per year.  Throughout this time, the population of Spain went from approx 9 million to 13.4 million.  This makes the former claim of 100,000 executions beyond ridiculous.  Even the modern Protestant claim of 32,0000 deaths is 6.5 to 10 times higher than the reality.

Now,  during the last six years of the final war between the invader-occupier Muslims and the Catholics of Spain, there was an average of 77 executions per year, until 1492.  This was 15th Century statistics.  So, beware of how a stereotypical propagandist can twist the stats.  None the less, Spain was at war with an opponent who occupied Spain for 767 years.  So, the executions were not a matter of a crazed maniac with torture engines all around him.

All in all, it got to a point in time, when all Spanish Inquisition executions ceased for the most part.  In fact, Napoleon and the Cortes Cadiz (which see) suspended inquisition operations from 1808 to 1814.  All in all, the last execution was that of of a teacher who used Catholic Church property to advocate Deism.  Deism claims that everything about the Catholic Faith is worthless, meaning that the Catholic Church should be dissolved and its property used for other things.  This was in the Year 1826.

Now, experience in Europe was that the preacher of any anti-Catholic doctrine is eventually accompanied by armed persons ready to engage in warfare and commandeer Catholic Church real estate.  The same was the case for the Orthodox religion, namely in Russia.

In conclusion, the true nightmare of Spanish History was [1] Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 and [2] the 20th Century Spanish Civil War, where even nuns were executed ... and where even statues of Christ were the targets of firing squads. 

In review, the closest iron maiden was discovered to have been in Germany; a very long jog from Spain.  The Spanish Inquisition archives proved that 16th Century Spain was NOT any worse than France or Austria or Italy or Greece in matters of capital punishment, concerning the number of those executed.  And it certainly wasn't worse than Russia which was, by far, worst in that department.  

In fact, England was the monster of 16th Century Western Europe, in alternating intervals of time.  Sometimes the British monster awakened.  At other times, it was put to rest,  When it came to executions, 16th Century England had low tide and high tide.  And concerning the proverbial high tide, 200 to 300 Catholic martyrs of the Tudor reign ended up being beatified by the end of the 19th Century, in Vatican City.  That is one step away from canonization.  

Then came the Irish who were victimized by Oliver Cromwell.   The estimate is that approx 520 Roman Catholics were put to death by the Tudor and Cromwell reigns, with much less of a number of Protestants being executed by the same British.  Yet, the Spanish Inquisition gets the attention, even though Protestant England executed Protestant Lutherans ... and even though Protestant Switzerland executed Protestant Anabaptists.  This included the execution of Mennonite, Felix Manz.  

In sequence, seven years later, an Anabaptist cult took over the entire German city of Münster, and that resulted in warfare tactics being employed against the cult.   Protestants were not reforming the Church.  Protestants were killing each other, and constantly striving to take over Northern European Roman Catholic Church real estate & infrastructure.  

The 16th Century was a time of chaos and bloodshed ... NOT freedom of thought.  After all, wherever there is insanity, there is never any freedom of thought.  Luther was nobody's liberator, especially the German peasants who were vehemently condemned by Luther ... after he previously wrote a piece that made him sound like their great protector.  Well, 300,000 German peasants were NOT protected by Luther or anyone else.   Approximately 100,000 of them died in the process of Luther seeing to it that the Elector of Saxony would ... would ... "push back" the advance of the primitively-equipped peasant army which was annihilated by a much smaller, yet more modernized alliance of [1] Swabians, [2] Hessians, [3] Saxons, and soldiers from Brunsewick-Wolfenbuttal.

In as much, you will find 16th Century mass graves in Luther's Germany, but you will NOT find them in Renaissance Spain.  You will especially NOT see any near any district court of the Spanish Inquisition.  This is super ironic for the anti-Catholic pro-Lutheran folks out there who have a seething hatred toward Roman Catholicism and Romans per se.  HOWEVER, you need to understand that Martin Luther suddenly became terrified over the concept of Mob Rule in 1524, being that a mob of peasants was literally headed his way.  All in all, the nightmare of Spain was the 20th Century Spanish Civil War and NOT the 16th Century Spanish Inquisition.

The accusation against Catholicism has been that it's "adherents" (church members) were mindlessly superstitious and anti-progress, as well as anti-science.  At this point, observe the following list of Roman Catholic mathematicians, scientists & inventors.  It includes several Catholics who are regarded as the "father of "this science and "the father of" that science.  This includes Nobel Prize winners in one science category or the other.  It shows that Catholicism was the opposite of the dark oppressor of invention and the suppressor of intellectual thought.  It shows that the very stiff-necked Jimmy Swaggart (born in 1945) to be all wrong, along with the ultimate objector-to & skeptic-of Catholicism, John Ankerberg (born in Chicago, 1945):

[1] Antoine Lavoisier (father of modern chemistry who was executed during the French Revolution),  [2] Borelli (father of biomechanics),  [3] Fabricius (father of embryology),  [4] Agricola, along with [5] Anselmus de Boodt (co-founders of mineralogy),  [6] Andre Ampere (co-formulator of the laws of Electromagnetism),  [7] Marcello Malpighi (father of comparative physiology),  [8] Luca Pacioli (father of accounting & bookkeeping),  [9] Gregor Mendel (father of genetics),  [10] Giuseppi Zamboni (inventor of the first electrostatic battery,  [11] Benito Vines (founder of hurricane science), [12] Nicolas Steno (father of geology & stratigraphy, as well as Steno's Principles), [13] Antonio Neri (glass-making treatise), [14] Giuseppi Mercalli (Volcanology & the Mercalli Scale for measuring earthquakes),  [15] Christian Mayer (pioneer in Binary Star Science).

Now, over 200 more names of Catholics can be added to the list.  In as much, show me the discoveries, inventions, and/or scientific treatises of the anti-Catholic TV evangelists and their 16th Century Northern European Protestant counterparts.  The Catholic Church is NOT the hider of the Bible.  It's NOTthe oppressor of knowledge.  It's the church of prolific writers ... and societal organizers ... and inquisitive scientists.

Note: John Hagee apologized for his assertions against Catholicism.  So, we act as if it never happened when it comes to him, and we move on.  That's called, "forgiveness."  Try it some time in the near future.

The Jews of Spain:  Both sides of the story

Whereas the Horror Story of the Inquisition detailed horrendous torture against Protestants, there wasn't enough Protestants in Spain to keep 20 district court tribunals busy.  The true inquisition predominately focused on Jews, to see if those who went through public conversion to Catholicism secretly remained Jews, instead --- and to see if any Jews were still giving financial support to the Moors.  

At this point stop and acknowledge in your mind the predominate reason why Spaniards did NOT trust Jews.  It's simple.  Jews were seen as the funding source of the Moorish invaders and occupiers of Spain, especially in Granada where they excelled economically.  BUT ... the Moorish occupation was basically in three different modes of time, with the middle era being "warfare renewed." 

When Umayyad Caliphate Commander Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād first captured Granada, Cordorba, and Astorga (in 711 C.E.), the Jews saw themselves as being relieved of the stress and oppression imposed by the Visigoths.  As long as the Jews payed the Jizya tax to the Moors ... and as long as they abided by certain Muslims laws ... they could enjoy an affluent lifestyle.  Yet, they and the Catholics were to be regarded as second class citizens, under Muslim Rule.  Yet, the Jews in Granada were an effective source of income for the Moors, and they thrived with the Moors.  The Moorish capital was Granada, and the Moors remained in Spain for 767 years, even calling Spain, Andalusia.  

The great animosity from the Jews came from the period when the Visigoths were forcing baptism upon them.  Yet, a Visigoth king recognized that it was a wrong thing to do, so he put it to an end.  The official Catholic Church teaching on forced baptism appears in Vatican II and in the Pope Pius XII encyclical, Mystici Corporis Christi.  To make a long story short, you cannot force doctrinal beliefs on a person.  You can enforce the natural law of moral conduct, though.  Thus, you can prohibit dangerous activities and unsafe practices.  You can punish a person for violent acts not done in self-defense or in the defense of a third person.  You can even inspect things, such as road vehicles, to make sure they are not a danger to anyone.  But, you cannot tell a person whom to believe is God ... or to believe in the existence of the Great Spirit ... or the godhead ... or the Unmoved Mover .. or Thor ... or Odin ... or Jupiter ... or Pachama, etc.

Ironically, the non-Christians Moors were allowed to stay in Spain, after the 1492 liberation of the Moors.  Then, in 1609, even Roman Catholic Moors were expelled.  They were all under suspicion of aiding the Berber pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.  The bottom line is that the Spaniards dreaded a return invasion of the Moors. And they were sure that the Jews would re-welcome them, due to the Moors not being as harsh as were the Visigoths.   The Visigoths should have let the matter of religion be in the hands of unarmed missionaries who were more teachers than sales professionals or census takers. 

The forged letter of 1570

As far as goes the forged letter, it stated that the Inquisition targeted entire Western European populations for extermination.  In addition to proving the letter a fraud through forensic science, the circumstance of the day proved it to be the most asinine of allegations.  This is because Spain had its hands full with none other than the FOURTH Ottoman-Venetian War.  This necessitated the Spanish, Sicilian, and Neapolitan navy fleets to sail to Cyprus and to the Gulf of Patraikos.   There wasn't the time or the resources to exterminate Protestant Europeans.

The Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War was the war of the famous Battle of Lepanto of 1571 (which see.)  Europe was about to be overrun by Muslim invaders who would have turned all the churches into mosques ... and many a young lady into harem girls ... against the ladies' wills.  Yet, none of the official Protestant nations cared to join in the defense of Europe, as if they were hoping that the Ottomans would destroy the Catholic armies and end the Holy Roman Empire ... and to end the Habsburg Dynasty. 

At the same time, the dreaded 80 Years War was transpiring in the Netherlands.  It involved a trade embargo against England & those English "privateers" who were pirating Spanish & Portuguese ships.  Thus, there wasn't the time and the resources to even think of exterminating entire Protestant populations within Europe.  The letter was a complete fake which caused an uproar.

The Montanus Nightmare Tale included racist name-calling, all the while accusing the common Spaniard of being the most depraved & most vile low-life that humanity had to offer.  Thus, you were considered to be the worst of the worst dregs, simply because you were Spanish.  That's racism.

Plus, the reasonable person would realize that the horrific tortures of the Montanus Tale involve repulsively shredded gore ... repulsive displays of carnage.  Now, no human can endure the work of cleaning torture engines laced with torn human carnage, day after day after day.  

Nearby Spanish residents would have eventually learned of this torture, if the tortures had been occurring.  There would have then been an uproar and lots of writings on the subject would have been addressed to civil and religious leaders.  The Vatican would have intervened as much as it did during the official banning of slavery in [1] the Canary Islands,  [2] the Philippines, and [3] Latin America.  The pope surely would have heard of it and then he would have commented on it ... or else he would have issued a papal bulletin, banning such conduct.  Well, there is no physical evidence of any such tortures, and no evidence of letters to Rome, and no evidence of statements by any Vatican official at the time.  This would logically mean that "it" wasn't happening the way Montanus stated that it was.  Such a thing is usually called, False Light Defamation.

This means that there would be mass graves of chaotically arranged human bones near each of the 20 district courts of the Spanish Inquisition, if that horror story were true.  So, where are these mass graves?  The people who still promote the hyper-exaggeration of the Spanish Inquisition need to become defendants in a multi-million dollar class action defamation lawsuit --- simply to finally shut them up.  Their tale defames Catholics today, and it incites violence against Catholics.  And of course, approximately 300 attacks upon Catholic Church infrastructure had recently occurred in America, along with church burnings in Canada, to the accompaniment of cheering voices.  There was also the French churches that were sabotaged, as well. 

At this point, one needs to acknowledge that those recent acts of American vandalism were suspected to have been done by pro-abortion political fanatics.  Well, those fanatics were brainwashed at a young age to believe that the Catholic Church is equal to the Spanish Inquisition Horror Story.  Yet, the history of Catholicism is marked by expanded undertakings of charity and the de-animalizing of man.  Hospitals and schools of every academic grade were established.  Mankind was being taken out of the darkness of ignorance is those many Roman Catholic cases.  The illiterate were being educated.  Religious orders emerged according to need.  This included a religious order dedicated to paying ransom to Muslim pirates, for kidnapped European Christians.  This also included a French religious order dedicated to giving formal education to orphans in France.  

In addition, the Spanish were well known to be sensitive enough to make notable artwork.  Sensitive people abhor gore.  Moreover, the only known iron maiden of the era was in . . . Germany ... not Spain.  Plus, Spain was a Roman Catholic country, and Roman Catholicism forbade bodily mutilation of any kind.  Yes, the tortures described in the 1567 horror tale was a violation of canonical law.  Spo, according to Montanus, the Catholic Church was breaking Catholic Church law, in order to make people become Catholic ... so that they could break Catholic Church law.  Real smart there, Monty.

The real nightmare of Spain was in its 20th Century civil war.  Nuns, priests, and Catholic laity were executed at the time.  They weren't the oppressive "Bible-hiding" executioners.  They were the executed.  In fact, an order of priests martyred during that war were beatified at Vatican City in October of 1989.  They were priests of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, also known as the Passionists.  Each priest was placed one step away from the status of a canonized saint.

The Renaissance Era Spanish did NOT arbitrarily kill people.  There had to be a writ of execution involved with every execution, being that the most powerful empire in Western Europe always had due process of the law and record-keeping.  The Spanish kept a meticulous archive system.   There is no evidence of more than an average of 9 to 14 executions per year in the Spanish Inquisition, and those people were burnt in flames.  There weren't killed on torture engines.

Also to be addressed is the fact that today's more subtle anti-Catholic propagandists attribute the Montanus Horror Story to a certain Spaniard who was an ex-monk versed in Hebrew and Greek.  Well, no sensible human would write so repulsively of his own people, because to do so is to indict yourself.   Since when does a sane Spaniard call all the Spanish "the children of Satan"?  Hello?  Is anybody home, upstairs?

No Spaniard would call his own people and own self the most sexually perverted, most murderous, and lowest of all animals who walk the Earth.  In fact, how could the ultimate super power of Western Europe be a nation of brutal & mindless dregs, as well as sexually perverted animals?  That, alone, shows that the Montanus Horror Story was hyped-up pre-war propaganda.  Yet, the specific facts about the one Spaniard whom the anti-Catholics claim to be Montanus shows instantly that they are either deliberately lying or they are void of intelligence.  

To make a long story short, that particular Spanish person would have been taken to the Netherlands Inquisition and NOT to the Spanish Inquisition as Montanus claimed to have been taken.  Plus, the Spanish ex-monk would had exactly sixteen witnesses to corroborate at least part of his story.  This is because 16 other monks simultaneously left the monastery with the Spanish gentleman claimed to be Montanus in disguise.  Yet, no one ever corroborated anything that the Montanus Tale stated.   

Plus, the Spanish man whom Protestants claim to be Montanus appeared in Geneva Switzerland healthy and enthusiastic, in 1568.  By 1571, the same man became a citizen of Frankfort and then became a successful silk merchant.  He lived to the age 74.  If he were beaten badly at a horrific Spanish torture chamber, he would have died at a much younger age.  

It is always wrong to present your hate-filled prejudice as documented fact.  And concerning the man claimed to be Montanus, it was the Spaniard who translated the Bible into Spanish.  The hate-filled propagandists wanted to make it appear that Casiodoro de Reina was tortured for translating the Bible into Spanish.  This is where the greatest lie of Protestant propagandists come to the fore.  It's simular to the claim made of Wycliffe.  For the record, John Wycliffe was NEVER burnt at the stake.  John Wycliffe was NEVER executed.  He died from a stroke, during the Christmas season.

Their great lie is the claim that the Catholic Church hid the Bible from humanity, and that the Protestants liberated mankind by distributing the Bible everywhere, beginning with the Gutenberg Bible.  This is a 100,000% lie.  

Firstly, Gutenberg was a devout Roman Catholic given ranking by the Bishop of Mainz, Germany.  It has always been the case that the Catholic Church used & still uses the Bible far more often than the Protestants ever did . . . to the point where numerous Roman Catholic stained-glass windows ARE Biblical passage scenes in picture form . . . manufactured for the sake of the illiterate.  Observe:

During any day, the Roman Catholic Church uses the Bible in its official prayers [1] EIGHT times everyday in the Divine Office, also known as the Book of Hours,  [2] THREE times per every Sunday Mass,   [3] TWO times per every weekend Mass . . . and in  [4] numerous theology courses, being that the Roman Catholic Church has far more academic institutions of all academic levels than Protestantism ever had, [5] and the Bible is also used during official Catholic weekend retreats, depending on the discretion of the priest conducting the retreat.  

[6]  Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church grants a complete remission of the TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT due to sin (AFTER receiving priestly absolution) at the hour of death to those who spent their lives devoutly reading the Bible approximately a quarter-hour per day.  This means that the Roman Catholic Church ENCOURAGES the reading of the Bible, "for devout purposes."  [7]  Also remember that the greatest Bible teacher of them all were the numerous Catholic Church stained-glass windows which each portray a Biblical scene on each window, be it the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity of Christ, St. Peter's commission, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Archangel Michael, Elijah, John the Baptist, etc, etc, etc.  

Protestant preachers who wear business suits at the pulpit lie about the Catholic Church as a business tactic.  They defame the Catholic Church, in the hope that Catholics will leave the True Church and join the preachers' Protestant sect, so that the Catholics will start putting their tax-free collection basket money into the Protestant sect's collection baskets.  For a Protestant preacher, defaming Catholics is profitable.  That is equivalent to stealing money via "theft by deception."  Those types of preachers are liars & thieves, for the sake of your "disposal income;" of your tax-free collection basket allowance money.

In this way, the Protestant preachers can buy more business suits ... and personal items.  It's business to them.  It's all business.  It's how they make their income; killing off the Catholic Church so that they can live really really well.  They are constantly looking for their Thirty Pieces of Silver, over and over, again and again.

Part 4: The Real Spanish Inquisition

A nation of mindless animals can't construct things like this, because it required diligence, intellectual capacity, and discipline.  These types of structures are throughout Spain.  Thus, the Montanus Tale of Spaniards being beastly Satanic terrorists was the Montanus Farce.  The year after it's publication, the 80 Years War began.  Propaganda does start wars.  However, Calvinist fanatics were infiltrating the Netherlands in disguise, in 1567.  Thus, it was actually the 81 Years War.

The great outrage in anti-Catholic propagandists harping on the anonymous & uncorroborated 1567 horror story for the past 450 years ... without first consulting the vast Inquisition archives ... and without acknowledging the entire absence of physical evidence ... is that those people are condemning the existence of the Catholic Church today, by pushing a 450 year old war propaganda that was proven to be a hideous exaggeration, in the first place.   They are basically saying, "You have to shut down ... or shun ... or destroy ... the Catholic Church of today, for something that was said to have happened 450 years ago, without evidence to prove that it happened."  Even today, Protestant preachers outright claim ... or insinuate  ... that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon ... and that the pope is the Antichrist.  

For the record, the Herod Dynasty was the Whore of Babylon of the Apocalypse, and ancient Rome was the Beast of the Apocalypse.  And of course, Herod mocked Jesus, while waiting for him to perform magic tricks.  Rome then executed him.

This endless promotion of the Montanus Tale is especially a defamatory outrageous, in light of the fact that Henry VIII's England was the true nightmare, as was the German Peasant Rebellion opponents who saw to the killing of 100,000 of the 300,000 participating peasants.  Oliver Cromwell's massacre of the Irish in Drogheda was just as true a nightmare as the German Peasant Massacres, and Elizabeth II calling for an all-out persecution of the Catholic Church in the 1580s is a continuation of the same nightmare.   Yet, Protestant propagandists shown themselves to have no sense of compassion or empathy.

Now, even the British government posthumously condemned Cromwell as a criminal.  Yet, the Protestant preachers of today never acknowledge the murderous acts of Cromwell.  They simply insert, upon occasion,  mention of the Montanus horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition.  It was easily proven to be a hoax, through the employment of non-lazy historians who have no trouble over the idea of scouring through ... sifting through ... the 130,000 case files in the Spanish Inquisition archives. 

Once again, the 1994 BBC documentary titled, THE MYTH OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION, is linked directly below, for your convenience.

See:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlAqklH0do      

In having stolen all Roman Catholic Church property in England, and after having killed Roman Catholics by the cartload, Tudor England needed to develop an exaggerated and therefore false excuse for the murders and thefts.  They had to demonize Roman Catholics, even though England was Roman Catholic for the prior consecutive centuries.  So, they officials declared the only church which traces back to the original apostles the Whore of Babylon.    

Thus, British Protestants were out to defame their own ancestors.  Or at the least, they would find a way to make their ancestors look like the repressed victims of that evil evil Catholic Church known for minstrels, fairs, knights, castles, religious charity organizations, monks making hand-written copies of the Bible, religious pilgrimages, cathedrals, and Saint Francis of Assisi, as well as Clare of Assisi; not to mention Thomas a Becket, and the Thomas More who was executed directed through Henry VIII.

Being that there was a rebellion in the Netherlands against the Hapsburg Dynasty who happened to also rule Spain, war propagandists needed to make the Spanish look so horrifying that the Dutch would want all links to Spain severed. 

Central Europe's Lutherans and Calvinists needed to do the same, being that the King of Spain was also the Holy Roman Emperor.  Thus came the hyper-exaggerated horror story of the Spanish Inquisition, published in Heidelberg in 1567.  However, more people were executed in the Netherlands for heresy than in Spain, between 1557 and 1562.  So, where are all the horror stories about the Dutch Inquisition?  Well, the horror story about the Dutch would come to be that they would rise as the literal masters of the Atlantic Slave Trade, adversely affecting the lives of 500,000 black (sub-Saharan) Africans.

Now see historian & researcher Henry Kamen, fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzLwWRKi1c

Below:  The Toledo branch of the Spanish Inquisition, slightly south of Madrid.   

That overly theatrical & anonymously written 1567 text resulted in the 80 Years War, one year later.  It would result in the NORTHERN Dutch leaving the Roman Catholic Church and then becoming the literal masters of the Atlantic slave trade, until 1814.  

The Dutch trafficked in approximately 500,000 African lives, thereby causing tremendously more harm on humanity than any European inquisition ever could.  The Netherlands would also be a nation of legalized piracy, in hijacking hundreds of Portuguese & Spanish ships, while claiming to be "predestined" to Heaven, according to the Calvinist Protestant doctrine.   

Moreover, on two historic occasions, popes shut down the slave trade, even 16 years before Columbus was even born; [1] Canary Islands, January 13, 1435, Pope Eugene IV. [2] Philippines, April 18, 1591, Pope Gregory XIV.

In a third instance, in 1537, the reigning pope at the time officially banned slavery in the Americas.

All in all, the demonizing of the Roman Catholic Church was done, in order to justify the stealing of Catholic Church real estate, via edict & decree in the following European places:

[1] England, by secular edict, [2] Scotland, by secular edict, [3] Denmark, by secular edict,  [4] Norway, by secular edict, but not until two years after Henry VIII robbed the Church in England,  [5] Sweden, by secular edict that was "abrogated" for a short while and which was later placed back into force,  [6] Finland, by secular edict,  [7] Saxony, by outright disobedience to imperial orders,  [8] Brandenburg, by "elector's discretion," concerning a 1526 law, until the law was "reversed" in 1529,  [9] Zurich Switzerland, Geneva Switzerland, and other German and Swiss territories.

Furthermore, the 1567 horror story coincidentally was published when the Catholic government of the Netherlands counter-attacked the rebels who were literally rioting and smashing Catholic church statues without paying for the damages caused.  Statue Smashing is called Iconoclasm.  In as much, the statue smashers could now use the very defamatory 1567 horror story to claim that the Catholics of the Netherlands were evil and must be defeated.  However, the irony to this consists in the fact that European law always used to require TWO corroborating witnesses, in order to effect a conviction.  The Montanus Horror Story did NOT have a corroborating witness account.   

Shock Troops like Ninjas & the Trojan Horse

In 1568 Calvinist "shock troops" came into the Netherlands dressed like beggars, in a tactic much like the Trojan Horse event.  They were called the Geuzen, and they came to kill.  Thus, the 1567 horror story published in Heidelberg was deliberate war propaganda for the Protestant-Catholic (or Catholic-Protestant) wars.

And remember:  The King of Spain also was the King of the Netherlands, and he also was the Holy Roman Emperor.  Thus, the propagandist who fabricated the "Montanus Tale" painted the picture of a common Spaniard so vile that the Dutch would want to have nothing to do with the king of those Spaniards.  That same king who happened was also the king of the Dutch.  In this way, the lying propagandist(s), "Montanus" was trying to recruit soldiers for the Catholic-Protestant wars.  And of course, Winston Churchill once stated that, "The first casualty of war is the truth."  Before evil people attack, they first lie about the enemy.   They demonize their targeted victims.

The 16th Century Version of Tokyo Rose

You need to read about the Hapsburg Dynasty.  In as much, the Protestant Revolt was not against Catholicism alone.  It was also against the Hapsburg Dynasty.  Thus, the 1567 horror story about the Spanish Inquisition which has ZERO EVIDENCE to support its claims was nothing more than war propaganda.  Whoever wrote it was the 16th Century version of "Tokyo Rose."  (which see)

Also remember that, at its beginning, Protestantism was literally forced upon Northern Europeans, via governmental decrees, aka kings' edicts.  It was shoved down Northern European Roman Catholic throats, under penalty of law.  Protestantism was too new to have been the popular religion of the People.  And of course, by the death penalties given by the "Protestant Reformers,"  the number 2 casualty in the "Protestant Reformation" was "freedom of thought."  The Number 1 casualty was Truth & Kindness. (Biblical phrase from Isaiah.)

The Protestant movement was the act of secularizing Christianity.  It was the act of taking a cult founded by a seizure disordered German and turning it into a national religion throughout Northern European jurisdictions.  The act of shoving 16th Century Protestantism down Europeans' throats was no different than Lenin, Mao, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair shoving atheism down 20th Century people's throats. 

Now think! Volumes of evidence exist for the Nazi Holocaust.  None exist for the Darth Vader version of the Spanish Inquisition.  You don't have to be the useful idiot of the anti-Catholic megachurch & backwoods preachers out there.

For those who missed it, the Spanish Inquisition is entirely on record, in archives

Concerning the true horror story of the 16th Century, between 1557 and 1562, more executions transpired in the Netherlands than in Spain.  Yet, the Castile Crown's population was 7 million and Aragon was an additional million, while the Netherlands' population was 2.4 million.  This means that Spain should have had at least three times more executions.

Here's something the brainwashed will refuse to believe:  Spain did NOT execute women for witchcraft.  In the Spanish Inquisition data that I personally saw, I saw a grand total of ONE woman in Spain who was executed for witchcraft.   Now, let's follow a trail of facts:

A Matter of Identity

There is the matter of the identity of the author(s) of the 1567 Heidleberg publication that detailed the overly theatrical accusations against Roman Catholic Spain, where within the Spanish were called "animals."  Great racism there, Montanus.  The writer identified himself as "Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus."  Needless to say, there is no such case file in the Spanish Inquisition archives.  So, the pro-protestant people who make the conjectures ... as well as the disingenuous propaganda, claim that Montanus was Casiodoro of Reina.  

Well, years after the modern Protestant conclusion as to the identity of Montanus, TWO authentic letters of the time span were found by a certain historical society.  Casiodoro de Reina was definitely mentioned in one ... but only one ... and only in the footnotes. 

That letter mentioned that 17 Spanish monks had gone awol (absent without leave) and apparently traveled north, to Protestant country.  De Reina was mentioned as one of the 17 monks.   Mention was made that the run-away monks would be sought, in northern Europe.

This means that Casiodoro de Reina was reported as being at-large ... and NOT in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber.   And then, Casiodor was "heard from again."  He was in GENEVA SWITZERLAND, saying that Geneva was the new Rome.

The one blatant piece of evidence which proves 100,000% that either Casiodoro was deliberately lying in the Montanus Tale or else he never wrote the Montanus Tale in the first place:

An official letter which served the purposes of a dispatch reported that Casiodoro and 16 other Spanish clergymen renounced their Catholic Faith and made it into Northern Europe.  The same dispatch stated that any available soldiers under his Highness, Ferdinand I, would search for those 17 ex-clergymen.  Got it so far?   

Okay now, IF Casiodoro had been found by any of the king's soldiers, he would have been sent to none other than THE NETHERLANDS, and NOT to the Spanish Inquisition.  This is because the King of Spain and the King of the Netherlands was the same one Hapsburg family member.  Moreover, you are sent to the jurisdiction of your crime.  Conspiracy to harm Northern European Catholics ... or to steal Catholic Church real estate ... or to damage Catholic Church property is such a crime.  And a lot of that type of activity was occurring in Northern Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Being sent to an inquisition meant that you were going to "go in for questioning," and the jurisdiction where a crime was committed was important.  Now, there is no crime in walking away from your monastery in Spain.  The question was what were Spanish ex-clergymen doing in a geographic area where ex-clergyman promoted the attacking of Roman Catholics and the acquisition of Roman Catholic Church property without paying for it.  So, what was the intent of the Spanish clerics who denounced their faith and went to the Catholic-Protestant war zone? 

A decisive question to Casiodoro would have been what was he doing in Northern European, when he was known to have no business there, and when he was a Spanish monk either lived off of the donations of the people or lived off of the selling of monks' bread or other food source?  These men did take vows of poverty, after all.

As a quick note:  There is a difference between a monk and a friar.  A friar is usually the member of a mendicant order.  A Mendicant Order is one were the order lives off of the donations of the people.  Monks create a product to sale.  In the Trappist monastery where I was a long-term guest, the Trappists made jam and sold it at the grocery stores.

The fact that Montanus claimed to have been a witness to the transpiration of the Inquisition in Spain, amongst "vile Spanish animals," instead of IN THE NETHERLANDS, shows us that Casiodoro de Reina either did NOT write the Montanus Tale or that he wrote it with the full intent to tell defamatory falsehoods in his writings.  If he did write the tale which had zero evidence to support it and zero corroborating witnesses to support it, he wasn't making a honest mistake.  He was engaged in severe malice.

Now, if any of you out there insist on pushing the defamatory version and the Montanus Tale, while declaring Casiodoro the poor poor victim of the Spanish Inquisition, when he showed up in Geneva in one piece, then we can continue this conversation before an United States federal magistrate, in a multi-million dollar class action (AND DIVERSITY ACTION) lawsuit.  And of course, from my personal experience, Catholic Bashers have a severe mental & emotional illness where they will not rest until the see every Catholic on Planet Earth is dead.  They are obsessed to a deadly degree . . . from my very unfortunate personal experience.  Also from my recent personal experience, lawyers are very expensive today, if you're not related to one.

More about the Casiodoro de Reina who would have been taken to the Netherlands Inquisition and NOT to the Spanish one, if any law enforcement official of the king would have caught up with him.

He is the one who translated the Bible into Spanish.  HOWEVER, there were previous translations of some of the Bible into Spanish.  None the less, the motive of modern Protestant propagandists in presenting him as the sure author of the UNSUBSTANTIATED & UNCORROBORATED Montanus Tale is to enable the propagandists to present Casiodor as this holy and heroic martyr going up against the evil evil Bible suppressing & Bible hiding Catholic Church.  The great lie of this is that, if not for the Roman Catholic Church, there would be no Bible:

[1] The Roman Catholic Church preserved and made copies of the Bible from the first day the Council of Rome declared the specific books of the Bible to be THE BIBLE.  [2] The Catholic Church several times each day in official church liturgy.  This include EIGHT time daily in the Divine Office, aka the Book of Hours, and three times per mass, each mass, on Sundays, as well as TWO times per each weekday Mass.  [3] And there are Bible class throughout Catholic academia in Church history. used th all the way until the 1054 Schism with Greek Christians. [4] Roman Catholic Church stained-glass windows often are illustrations of Bible passages.  Such was the act of beginning the Gospel to the Poor.

It has been a deliberate lie of the Protestants to state that Catholic never use the Bible.  As an example, go through this one website and count the Bible quotes in the most recent 5 posts.  Catholic writers use a lot of Biblical citations-references.  None the less, Casiodoro was used in the modern Protestant story of the Montanus Horror Story, to make him look like he was being tortured for making the Bible available to the People, behind the Catholic Church's back.  The truth is that the Catholic Church has been the care-taker of the Bible who even made Bible Picture Stories out of stained-glass for everyone to see.  

Protestants defame the Catholic Church so hideously, because there is a lot of tax-free collection basket money in conning Catholics to leave the True Church for their very fake church.  That fake church is comprised of hundreds of splinter churches.  Those splinters are known as denominations.  Protestants don't even agree with each other.

And of course, anti-Catholic propagandists of today make it sound as if Johannes Gutenberg began the Protestant "Reformation" by printing a copy of the Bible and by separating himself from the Catholic Church as much as possible.  The truth is that the  Roman Catholic archbishop of Mainz (Archbishop Adolph von Nassau) declared Gutenberg "a hofmann" (a gentleman of the Court)  This means that Gutenberg had a financial stipend, as well as free grain and wine, along with a court outfit each year.  Moreover, Gutenberg died a Roman Catholic.

Incidentally, the Gutenberg Bible was only 42 lines in length.  After that was the Mainz Psalter.  It was commissioned by the archbishop of Mainz, in 1457.  Thus, Gutenberg was NOT printing against the Catholic Church.  He was printing while being commissioned to do so, by the Catholic Church.

Protestant Propagandists are deliberate liars.  After all, John Wycliffe was often said by these Protestants to have been burned at the stake by Roman Catholics.  That was another big Protestant lie.  John Wycliffe died on New Year's Eve 1384, from a stroke that he had three days prior.  After 500 years, we vividly have learned that all that you are going to get from Protestant propagandists is lies, lies, and more lies. 

The Other Proof that Shoots Down the Casiodoro Conjecture

Concerning the Protestant claim that Casiodoro de Reina was Montanus, there is one flaming piece of blatant evidence which proves that claim to be either [1] a total falsehood as to it having been written by Casiodoro or [2] a deliberately written lie, by Casiodoro:

There were 16 other renegade Spanish clergymen who left the St. Isidore Monastery the same time Casiodoro did.  This means that several other runaway Spanish monks in Casiodoro's group would have also been witnesses to horrific acts in Spain.  Thus, they would have written their own damning eye-witness accusations against the Spanish Inquisition.  Needless to say, none of the other 16 associates of Casiodoro wrote any such damning testimony.  

The great problem was that they were posing as Roman Catholics while being Lutherans.   And of course, Lutherans already stole immense amounts of Roman Catholic real estate in Northern Europe, though the edicts of kings & electors.

The obvious conclusion is that the horrific Montanus Tale is an account that had ZERO CORROBORATING WITNESSES to it, and therefore, it was no more than a political HIT PIECE that served the function of war propaganda in the Protestant side of the Catholic-Protestant wars.  Such uncorroborated writings are usually deliberate lies.

In Retrospect

 Iron maiden type devices don't show up in history, until the early 19th Century ... in places such as PENNSYLVANIA.  Let's review:  A torture device that an easily deceived person would expect to find at a Spanish Inquisition office was found in PENNSYLVANIA ...  after the Napoleonic Era. (It was found during an investigation of governmental abuse ... a prison warden thing.)

Concerning the Pear of Agony, no mention of such a device shows up, until the 1700s, except for one mention made by a member of the House of Bourbon in the 1600s.  But no mention is made in the 1500s or at any time before the Heidelberg publication of the Montanus book.  Bourbons were NOT know for torturing people.  They were known for warfare and land acquisition, as well as luxurious living.  

I can assure you that the aristocrats of France preferred going to the theater far more than torturing people's non-sunlit anatomical sections.  In fact, the French literally used to take to theater productions persons diagnosed as mentally ill.  So, the French didn't have the Martin Luther mindset, as when Luther told a certain prince to drown a certain mentally ill child in a nearby river.

That piece of Luther's advice is a matter of written record.  Many things about Luther were heavily documented, because they were turning Luther into the Elvis Presley of his day --- into the "beloved Fuhrer" of his day --- the Hollywood star of his time.  Something like that.  And of course, this is what cults do.

For the record, during the 18th Century, the French called the mentally ill "the alienated."  And they did take them to theater productions, as an act of kindness.

Moreover, the French had an aversion to any type of torture, evidenced by the use of the painless guillotine.  And remember, Joan of Arc was given a torturous death in England ... not France.  Very painful and repulsively gore-ridden forms of execution were practiced in England and Scotland long before Henry VIII commandeered every acre of Roman Catholic Church property there.

The Baptismal Certificates of the time are evidence . . . for proving the tale to be a lie.

Oh, and concerning the claim that mass quantities of people were being forced to become Catholic in Spain, okay then, do this:   Show me all of the baptismal certificates of all of the tortured people who gave-in and became Catholic.  When you become Catholic, you go on record, and your record is filed in a parish church.   Ask ancestry experts.

Catholic parishes have registries, you know.  Even the day you received the Sacrament of Confirmation is recorded, along with that of your wedding and funeral -- and perhaps that of priestly ordination which is only done by a bishop.  So, where is evidence of suddenly elevated numbers of memberships of parishes near the torture chambers?  In fact, where are these Spanish torture chambers, anyway?

You would think that, after 456 years of horror stories, at least one blood-stain torture chamber would have been found . . . or at least one Iron Maiden . . . or at least one pear of agony . . . or least one hundred "missing persons reports" filed by wives or adult children or by siblings.  Apparently, people were not being arrested in the middle of the night and taken to torture chambers which didn't exist in the first place.

One more pivotal fact:  You have to go through the Rite of Christian Initiation, before you get baptized.  So, where is evidence of blood-soaked religion textbooks or manuals or handbooks?  Where are the blood-stained classrooms?  Catholicism is NOT the Pentecostal religion, where a guy walks to the front of the congregation, does the "Lord & personal savior" incantation, raise his arms, and then shouts, "Parrrrraise the Lord!  I've bin saved!"  

Moreover, for a Catholic baptism, you need "a baptismal sponsor."  So, where is the paperwork showing all the extra baptismal sponsors of 16th Century Spain?  Plus, plus, plus, baptismal "candidates" are presented to a parish ... or at a cathedral ... at a Palm Sunday Mass.  Where's the evidence of a church-load of torture victims being presented throughout Spain on Palm Sunday?   Even furthermore, it requires approval from a high ranking bishop to have the ordinary baptismal process waived.  Okay then, show me the signed and sealed pages showing the waivers.  Even at that, the names of baptized Catholics still go on record somewhere.  Well, let's see the records.

If the Spanish Inquisition were the horror that "Montanus" claimed it to have been, there would be a lot of documentation of excess Catholic parish membership occurring in the parishes near the torture chambers.  Where is it?

And where are all the skeletal remains and the mass graves?  What happened to the massive population of execution victims Montanus claimed to have existed in 16th Century Spain?  There should be evidence similar to the Jewish Holocaust.  It's NOWHERE to be found in Spain.  

So, this leaves us with a question:  Why are people ... especially in Germany and America ... so easily deceived?   The burden of proof is on all of the anti-Catholic propagandists.   Where's their evidence?   If you don't have any evidence, then you have to make retractions.  It's called "making restitution" for lying to the public on a massive scale.  But of course, Germans have repeatedly been deceived on a mass scale, including during the lifetime of Adolph Hitler ... the Austrian Jew-hater.

Evidence is everywhere for the existence of the Jewish Holocaust.  Evidence is nowhere for the hyper-exaggerated horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition.  Americans need to start using their brain cells, for a change.  There is no law which says that Americans have to remain the useful idiots of lying propagandists.

Okay then, we review:

There's widespread evidence of the existence of the Nazi Holocaust.  There's undeniable evidence that Planet Earth is spherical.  There is no evidence for the "horror-story-version" of the Spanish Inquisition.  In fact, from 1557 to 1562, Spain had less executions than did the much smaller Netherlands.  Even at that . . . 

... Do you really think that people back then were so stupid that they couldn't detect a mechanical dummy ten to fifteen feet away?  And don't you think that there would have been puddles of blood all around, to warn the next guy who walked into that hallway?   The inquisition did NOT set-up Iron Maidens in their courts.  And iron maidens do NOT look like real women.  All in all, the Montanus Inquisition Tale is so ridiculously absurd that no sane person could take it seriously.  Monty Python's cast surely didn't.

Background

One of the Montanus tales was that prisoners would walk up to sharp-bladed mechanical dummy dressed like a seductive woman, only to violently die when they put their arms around it.  Uhhhm, don't you think that each guy would have first said, "Hello," while waiting to hear, "Hello" spoken back to him?  Don't you think that an attempt at a conversation would have started, followed by the Spaniard immediately realizing that he was talking to a mechanical dummy?

Men can tell the difference between a really hot chick and a mechanical device.  Plus, the blood stains would have been everywhere.   All in all, it's very simple to conclude.  The people who believe in the horror-story version of the Spanish Inquisition never read it. It's super blatant bull crap to the sophisticated, 21st Century, high-tech mind reader.  Come out of the Protestant Dark-Minded Ages, people.  Come out of the Protestant Paranoia, before you hurt someone.

Protestants brought no freedom of thought, evidenced by the executions of their opposition.

Let us not forget that Luther was the first German to advocate in writing the expulsion of the Jews from German boundaries.  Luther furthermore directed that it only be done at the hands of government officials in Germany, and not by the common folk.  Well, centuries later, a certain German government complied with Luther's suggestion and turned it into a graphic reality.  

 

 

Here are the fruits of Martin Luther's "reformation" and writings.

                    “Hitler's Kampf und Luther's Lehr Des deutschen Volkes gute Wehr."                           "Hitler’s struggle and Luther’s teaching are the German people’s sure defense."

Luther's Literature:  The Undoing of Christ's Work

Do not be deceived.  Stealing Catholic Church real estate, by the acre, does NOT constitute a Reformation.   There was NO Protestant Reformation.  There was only war after war, even into 1712.   In fact, the 1555 Peace of Augsburg was merely a temporary truce between Catholics and the newly formed Lutherans.  All other religions were left out of the equation.  

Despite the 1555 truce, Protestant-Catholic warfare continued in France, until 1598.  The events, politics, and scorecard on that time span was super complicated, especially the deadly & vengeful dominoes effect of 1572.  It was even cloak & dagger in the unfolding of events thereafter.  That time span would be for its own discourse ... chapter ... article ... webpage.  It can't be reduced to one paragraph.  So we move onward.

St. Francis of Assisi Was the Most Epic & Effective Church Reformer in human history

All in all, Martin Luther's century ... and the century to follow ... were the centuries of War.  In as much, it was St. Francis of Assisi who brought peace to his geographic setting, in the 13th Century.  It was St. Dominic who brought peace to Southern France, during the lifetime of St. Francis.  Luther brought mass amounts of death, even centuries later, at the hands of Adolph Hitler who literally used Luther as a Nazi Party Poster Boy.  St. Dominic literally brought mass conversions to the Catholic Faith, mostly through advocating devotion to the Rosary.

As a review ... in the need to review, review, review:  the hatred of the Jews is a part of Luther's literature, as in the Jews and Their Lies.  Hitler ran with it ... with Luther's hatred of the Jews.   Luther literally advocated running all Jews out of Germany.  HOWEVER, he stated that only the government should do so ... not the common German citizen.  Well, a German government got the common German citizen to exterminate as many Jews as could be captured.

Theft the size of a continent

Luther heavily advocated stealing Roman Catholic Church property, as well.  But of course, he didn't regard it as theft.  He regarded it as driving the wolves from the sheep fields and then having good and holy stewards manage the stolen property.  This would be followed by the stealing of Jewish property, centuries later.  He who started the divisive Protestant religions was also the poster-boy at the start of the Nazi Religion.  Luther was originally Hitler's pope, dating back to 1933.  Very simply, evil is attracted to evil.  

In addition, it was a complete lie to have asserted that Luther "had a premonition of his own death" and that he confessed his sins shortly before dying.  Firstly, he predicted that he would die in Wittenberg.  Luther died in Eisleben (in Saxony-Anhalt.)  Plus, he was aging and simply talked about aging and what was the point in being alive in the first place.  When you get older, death comes to mind.  Therefore, bitterly complaining about life, while drinking pints of beer and/or ale, is NOT the act of confessing your sins, especially when your writings and advice resulted in the deaths of literally over 100,000 people, in the 1520s, alone.

Hitler's Birthday Gift to Luther

Ever-so-ironically, the ruthless Krystallnacht of November 9 & 10 (1938), took place on the 455th birthday of Martin Luther, and it was triggered by a young Polish Jew in France who assassinated a German diplomat, on Nov 7 of that year.  Herschel Feibel Grynszpan killed Ernst vom Rath, triggering tens of thousands of Jews being immediately sent to concentration camps which were actually ready for business in 1933.  

In less than one year after Grynszpan's act of hot-blooded rage, Poland was invaded.  WWII began.  More importantly, in less than one week, Jewish property was vandalized at the point of torches and bricks.  A youth would end up causing another world war.

Incidentally, the first class of people to receive Nazi concentration camp hospitality were the disabled.  Then the gypsies were soundly exterminated.  In fact, 2,579 Catholic priests were sent to Dachau, to die, proving that Hitler and Pius XII were NOT conspiratorial pro-Nazi buddies.  There were not that many priests in Central Europe, to begin with.  Priests are naturally a minority everywhere, due to the nature of their work.  Yet, Hitler gave priests the big x-out ... the big black-out ... the big Nazi farewell.

All in all, the tragic occurrences of  WWI and WWII were both triggered by asinine youths with guns, causing millions of deaths after their acts of murder.  So, if you are wondering how WWIII is going to start . . .

Protestants didn't merely separate themselves from the Catholic Church.  They separated themselves from each other, in forming sect after sect after sect.  After all, Martin Luther and his sidekick, Phillip Melanchthon, condemned the Anabaptists, expressly stating that every member of that sect deserved the death penalty.  In Switzerland, Anabaptist leaders got the death penalty Luther suggested.   Zwingli was soundly condemned by Luther also, as well as was Thomas Muntzer, in his adopted project.  That adopted project was the supporting of the German Peasant Rebellion of 1524-25. 

In addition, the Swiss Protestant Ulrich Zwingli most certainly was in the possession of deadly armaments  when he died in the Second Battle of Kappel, in 1531.  He regularly carried a sword AND a halberd which is carried by the Vatican's Swiss Guard to this day.   It's just that the armies of the five Catholic cantons performed a surprise attack, when a lot of the Swiss Protestant soldiers had their pants down ... sometimes literally.  Zwingli was in the "second line," and he still was caught off-guard.  Thus, he was NOT a mild, unarmed chaplain, as lying propagandists made him out to be.  Even today's Protestants lie and lie and lie some more, to make their founders look good.

Zwingli had his share of personal armaments which easily could take a human life or two or more.  He was as willing to kill as much as he was willing to "live in sin."  Meanwhile, Protestant propagandists are willing to lie in their writings, probably for the sake of getting added tax-free collection basket donations and book sales.  Don't be deceived.  Zwingli was no saint.  

In addition, there were certain Catholic commanders during the Protestant-Catholic wars who were no saints, either.  Add the Spanish Catholic commanders who oversaw the sacking of Catholic Rome.

At this point remember that the geographic region which gave humanity Martin Luther also gave humanity Adolph Hitler.  There were massacres centuries prior to Hitler's reign, dating back to the Black Death of 1348 - 1350, and also during other times --- in the same Germanic region.  Yes, Jews were blamed for the Black Death.  None the less, always remember:  Martin Luther was the undoing of Christ.  Hitler was the confirmation thereof.

In the modern era, Protestant sects even have sub-subsects, as is the case with Pentecostalism which has 32 sub-subsects divided between two subsects.   In fact, there's even a Bapticostal Movement.  Protestantism is a tossed salad.   It's a grab bag used as a party favor.  It's an abstract art painting on a museum wall which compels a viewer to say, "What the Hell is that?"

To divide and conquer has been the game Satan has been playing all along, in splintering the Church of Christ as if it were a board of thinned-out wood.  And remember, Satan is envious of mankind, because God willed to become Man, instead of angel.  Thus, Satan wants mankind annihilated.   After all, it is written, "However, through the envy of the Devil, death came into the world." Wisdom 2:24.

Disunity is the definition of Protestantism, in its divergent sects and in its dissimilar doctrines between the sects.  And of course, division is the Way of  Satan, as in "My name is Legion, for we are many." (Luke 8:30 & Mark 5:9)  

Protestantism discards Mary, as if she were the most worthless being in existence.  The fact that God the Father called Mary, "highly favored daughter," (through the Archangel Gabriel) means nothing to the Protestant world.  The fact that Christ's closest apostle, John, took in Mary and made her a member of his household for life, equally means nothing to these people.  The fact that the Early Church Fathers regarded Mary as the Ark of the Covenant is even more meaningless to these people.   

Even though the Tilma of Guadalupe shows all the science markers of a miraculous image, it means nothing to the Protestant world.  Lourdes Water is ignored by these apathetic people, too.  Their indifference also applies to miraculous hosts, miraculously produced oils, and stigmatic saints, as well as authentically incorruptible saints such as Louis of Montfort, Bl Margaret of Savoy,  St. Savina Petrilli, and Ubald of Gubbio.   Yet, they all claim that God talks to them, in "a word of knowledge."  

They talk about being baptized in the Spirit and performing long-distance miracles, as well as performing a version of exorcism.  So, they do not deny supernatural phenomenon.  They only deny the existence of miracles when Catholics perform the miracles.

TV evangelists, since the beginning of broadcasting, claimed numerous miracles with zero investigators confirming the claims.  That is to say, they have no Lourdes Bureau to investigate anything.  They will say that someone far away here and someone far away there were miraculously cured of this and miraculously cured of that.  Yet, never mentioned the who and the where.  Their followers apparently don't believe that people on TV are capable of lying ... or of even being criminally indicted for fraud in a 4th Circuit district court, on 24 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy ... or for racketeering & grand theft in Florida ... or embezzlement ... etc.  (All the aforementioned things actually occurred.)

A certain low-level church employee who was caught stealing from his employer on a long-term basis once said that adhering to a Protestant sect "is just another way to go to Heaven."  No, it isn't.  It's just another way to go to Hell.   At its inception, it was a way of bringing Hell to the people of Planet Earth.  Those were brutal times.

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For further learning, there is "Defense against Catholic Bashers.  Part 1 is found through here: http://www.theheartofmary.com/2023/02/summit-of-truth1.html

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The reason why "giving them 1789" now will result in "getting Napoleon 1799" later

It's called ANACYCLOSIS and it was discovered by an ancient Greek historian, noble, and government official, named Polybius.  It involves the cycle of governments.

Polybius lived from 200 BCE to 118 BCE, and he was the one put in charge of formulating governments in Greek cities, after the Fall of Carthage & the Destruction of Corinth.  Both events occurred in 146 BCE, 37 years after the Carthaginian king, Hannibal, died in exile.  

Concerning Carthage, it was founded by the Phoenicians.  They would come to have a leader who would who had a seething hatred toward the Romans.  

Well, concerning the Polybius who witnessed the end of the mighty Hannibal, he noticed that governments morph ... change ... in cycles.  The cycles, according to Polybius, go as follows:

Monarchy (which is usually started by a conquering military man who won the trust of his soldiers) eventually transforms into Aristocracy, where a privileged class has developed.

Then, things transform into Democracy, followed by powers being narrowed into the hands of a few.  Such a narrowing results in Oligarchy.

From the Oligarchical class rises a tyrant.  This is followed by Mob Rule, otherwise known as OCHLOCRACY.  This is then followed by the re-establishment of Monarchy.

As of Today

Now, 2,100 years of history have shown us that the Government Cycle is slightly different than the Polybius Model of it.  It has basically shown itself to be:

Monarchy ... transforming into Aristocracy which is actually Oligarchy.

Then comes representative governments, as in Republics of one sort or another.  This has involved "electors," as well as representatives, as well as parliamentary members.  

Oligarchy once again sets in, amongst corrupted representative government officials such as Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.  

Next comes Anarchy, aka Mob Rule.  After Mob Rule comes the re-establishment of none other than Monarchy.

Above: The musketeer's white cross, worn on their tabards, in their allegiance to the French monarchy.  In as much:

God save the kings to come, being that we want no more ~Nancy Pelosis, ~Chuck Schumers, ~Eric Swalwells, ~Joe Bidens, ~Adam Schiffs, ~AOC's, ~Kamala Harrises, ~Liz Cheneys, ~Dick Cheneys, ~George Bush Juniors, ~Jefferson Davises, ~Hillary Clintons, ~Spiro T, Agnews, ~Richard Nixons, ~Lester Maddoxes, ~Elizabeth Warrens, ~Tim Walzes, ~Jacob Frey types, ~Maxine Walters types, ~Mehmed II types, ~Abdul Hamid II types, ~Selim I types, ~Ilhan Omar types, ~Jamie Raskin types, ~Daniel Goldman types, ~James Buchanan types, ~Oliver Cromwell types, etc, etc, etc, etc.   

For those unaware, Oliver Cromwell was the first British ruler to order attacks upon the American colonies, specifically against Maryland (the only Roman Catholic friendly colony) and Virginia (the first colony to establish a college). 

In addition, the Jefferson Davis trial was cancelled, due to the General Amnesty that the first President Johnson granted to all Confederate combatants, as of Christmas Day, 1868.

Back to France 1789 which lead to Napoleon 1799

The French Revolution WAS Mob Rule.  It was Anarchy, where a small faction in France ... and a small fraction of humanity ... tried to insert itself as the new Oligarchy.  This was accompanied by the overuse of the guillotine.  

In as much, when terrorism starts, you're revolution is over.  See Maximilien Robespierre & the Reign of Terror.

Now, at the start of the French Revolution, there was a Corsican Italian artillery lieutenant in the French Army, named Napoleon Bonaparte.  He was a Second Lieutenant at the time and he was of average height for his era.

Napoleon was neither a 4'11" short guy nor a corporal.  In fact, it was in 1785 when Napoleon graduated from a military academy, immediately resulting in him being commissioned as a second lieutenant.   He was reported to have been quite skilled in mathematics.

Napoleon was called the Little Corporal as a sign of affection by his own troops who were willing to die for him.  Napoleon would ride up to the artillery lines and occasionally load a canon or two, by himself.  Napoleon was a "hands-on leader" and his soldiers admired him for this.  

Then, in 1792, Bonaparte was promoted to regular army captain.  Next came the Siege of Toulon, in 1793, where Napoleon stepped-in after the injury of a pivotal officer.  

He had the influence to get Commissioner Antoine Saliceti to assign General Jacques Dugommier as the prime field marshal of Toulon and to allow the Dugommier Plan to proceed. 

In the end, the French Republicans captured Toulon and Napoleon was eventually given the commission of Brigadier General.  Before this occurred, Napoleon was arrested shortly after Robespierre was executed.  But, in 1795, Napoleon became the Commander of the Army of the Interior.

King Maker

In as much, Commissioner Saliceti was the King Maker of post-revolutionary France which was temporarily Republican France.  Yes, the defender of the French Republic created an Italian emperor.  

Saliceti was a friend of the Bonaparte family, being that Saliceti was born in Corsica, as was Napoleon.  Saliceti succeeded in getting a hometown boy from his own home province to lead France.  

BTW, Saliceti's home province was actually a colony.  Thus, Napoleon becoming emperor ... very unexpectedly ... was like a Hawaiian resident becoming President of the United States.  

It was also like the son of Cuban refugees becoming the United States Secretary of State, as well as an United States senator.  

It was also equivalent to the daughter of Iraqi immigrants becoming a senior advisor to the Attorney General for United States Attorneys.

2028

In as much, if there still is an United States in 2028, I'm voting for either Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis ... unless someone beyond exceptional comes out of nowhere.  

I would also advocate either Rubio or DeSantis becoming US Secretary of State in 2029 to 2032.  Thus, one of them as il presidento and one of them as Sec of State.  

Alina Habba would make for an alert vice president, unlike the absolutely airheaded anti-Catholic one of 2021 to 2024.  Plus, Alina is a female and she's a racial minority.   Bingo City on this choice.

Plus, plus, plus, she's a Jersey Girl.  Thus, us Italian-Americans would feel completely at home with her in office.  She would work well, despite the lying propagandist slurs against her ... made by Democrat Party operatives whose only talent is that of lying to humanity.   

So, the 2028 winning presidential ticket should be either Rubio-Habbas or DeSantis-Habbas.  That's where my vote is going, if voting in the USA is still in existence, come 2028.  

And yes, I officially withdrew from the Democrat Party in July of 2024, becoming an Independent instead.  This is because that party became a thoroughly Sick Joke.  In library book shelves, the Democrat Party needs to be filed under "you've-got-to-be-kidding."

At present there are numerous attempts at having revolutionaries rise in America and elsewhere, to effect anarchy, somewhat like the France of 1789.  It will only result in another Napoleon of 1799.  So, it would do you well to familiarize yourself with Napoleon, as well as Saliceti, in addition to Polybius. 

The Pivotal Question:  Who will be the next Napoleon?  ANS:  The last man standing, literally.  

It will have nothing to do with "seducing the masses" in any kind of a political campaign.  It will involve someone accomplished in having personal discipline and who notices things a lot quicker than the average bear.  

It will involve a grateful people ... somewhere ... who were spared from destruction ... or textbook-defined disaster ... by the individual who, in the end, will be the last man standing ... and who will be able to start society anew.  

There will be no anti-Catholic whores of Willie Brown is the future governments, after the Last Man Standing phase of history transpires.

It will be a matter of everyone formerly in power running for cover, leaving the job up to someone who didn't live the life of oligarchs & aristocrats ... who did not live the life of luxury.  Thus comes the discipline aspect and the ability to suddenly notice things others don't.  Napoleon had that ability.  None the less, even geniuses have their limitations & shortcomings.

All in all, in the 18th Century, the French traded-in a French king for an Italian emperor.  Expect something and/or someone somewhat similar in some way to come about in the near future.  This is because ... history repeats itself.

And remember one more thing:  World War II was won in a wheelchair ... in a wheelchair owned by an FDR who didn't even get to see the end of the war he won.  Julius Caesar had epilepsy.  Claudius had tremors and difficulty walking.  

In addition, Abe Lincoln suffered from severe depression, as did Churchill.  Octavian Augustus suffered from weakness as a youth, and Teddy Roosevelt had severe childhood asthma.  

In as much, rationale is what's needed to rule people; not superior physical health.  Yet, it's the ability to inspire which makes a leader.  Adversity can lead to wisdom of some variety.  Wisdom can trigger inspiration.

As a note to you Americans who regard yourselves as "Bible-believing Christians:"  

Firstly, I believe in the Nazarene as the Son of the Living God, too.  In fact, I believe in those displayed and/or witnessed miracles such as bleeding hosts, the Tilma of Guadalupe, the October 13th, 1917, Miracle at Fatima, the Padre Pio Phenomenon, the Saint Charbel Phenomenon, the January 1938 fulfillment of a Fatima prophecy, etc, etc, etc.  

Thus, I believe in the Bible and then some.  This includes me believing in the power of an officially assigned exorcist, the sacramental absolution from sin, Apostolic Succession in the form of a priesthood, etc, etc, etc.

As far as goes you Bible-Believers claiming that America was founded by the Nazarene, in his divine providence, and that God will save the USA, know this:  

There is no way that an Eternal God is going to save and preserve a political government that slaughtered its most helpless citizens for the past 50 years, to the tune of thousands per day.  These are citizens who never got to see their own mother's faces and who never got to see sunlight.  

God saves people, and not man-made institutions.  God raises kings, and not democrat party politicians who advocate baby-killing and then make millions of dollars off of insider trading, while never creating a single private sector job ... 

... while wasting taxpayer dollars on sex-change operations for sexual perverts who will always have the xy or xx chromosome arrangement with which they were born.  Sex-change operations do not delete the XY Chromosome.

All in all, keep one thing in mind, you Bible-believing Christians out there:

It's Christ the King and NOT Christ the Speaker of the House.  It's Christ the King of Angels and NOT Christ the Majority Leader ... or Minority Whip ... or Party Leader ... or Chairman ... or Commissioner ... or even President.

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Below is an instance of 1789 occurring in late February of 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSXtNCXzagM

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The video of the gentleman below shows that this anarchy is NOT something in the future.  It's already underway.  The gentleman narrating the video below is a black man ... aka a sub-Saharan African American ... and he has over a million subscribers.  He's also a veteran of the US Army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStteHi3Pn4

By the way, did you know that a border patrol agent was shot dead by a Transexual, on I-91, in Coventry, Vermont, on January 20, 2025?  If you didn't know this, then it's because you are a low-information puppet who only watches CNN and MS Now, as well as Democracy Now which has nothing to do with democracy ... now or ever.

As for the next video link below:  It will take you to the voices of Bill Maher and Stephen A in the present tense, in what's known as "a reaction" video.  A "reaction video" is a loophole, to get around ... to sidestep ... copyright infringement accusations.  So, listen to what Bill and Stephen have to say these days.  

But first, an ancestry brief of Bill Maher, for the record

Bill and I are both of Irish Catholic ancestry, as well as Mediterranean ancestry.  

Bill's Irish ancestry is from Tipperary, and so too is mine.  This would mean that the statistical chance is that Bill Maher is a descendant of Danish Vikings.  I definitely am, according to advanced DNA testing.

His Mediterranean DNA is Jewish and mine is Italian, both Northern and Southern Italian (aka "Greco-Roman").  Thus, Bill is Eastern Mediterranean and I'm Central Mediterranean.

BTW, Northern Italians aren't Mediterranean.  They're ... we're ... a mixture of the Ostrogoths, the Insubres who founded Milan, and the Boii who were Bohemian Celts of ages past.

Meanwhile, the other half of my Irish ancestors were those classical celts who liked doing the ritual-in-the-woods thing.  I always loved the woods ... far more than the beach scene.  Go figure.

Steeler Country

Concerning Stephen A, I'm from Pittsburgh and he's an avid Steeler fan.  Do the math, there.

All in all, clicking the link below will get you insights from two famous TV stars who actually do think and not just rattle off "approved political party lines."  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGtY2YvNW0

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The link below:  A thirteen year old got a brutal beaten on school grounds, for supporting Donald Trump and ICE.  This is why events like the Nuremberg Trials transpire, from time to time.  Teachers must pay for brainwashing their students, when they were in charge of educating them, instead.  

Nazis in Germany brainwashed their students.  Today's left is the modern-day Nazi Party.  After all, they arrested Catholics for praying on street corners, during the stolen-presidency of the corrupt hypocrite, Joe Biden ... and his magical autopen which seemed to have a mind of its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGtY2YvNW0

And remember, there were 13 Nuremberg Trials.  Meanwhile, in the same general time span, there were 28 high ranking Japanese officers put on trial, along with Tokyo Rose.  Seven of them were sentenced to Death, and 16 of them were sentenced to Life in Prison.  Two defendants died during the trials and one was declared unfit for trial, due to mental illness.  

BTW, Tokyo Rose ... namely, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ... was granted a presidential pardon by the Sunday School President, Jimmy Carter, who was well versed in the Bible.  Jimmy was also a Navy vet.  He was also the Three Mile Island president ... and the Iran Hostage president ... as well as the super high interest rate president.

Iva married a Filipino man which explains her last name.  She, herself, was all Japanese in her ancestry, and she was the seventh person ever to be convicted of Treason, in U.S. history.

Today's American teachers and youth think that they are immune to their hate-filled speech and violent actions.  No, they are not.  You'll see.  They'll see.  History repeats itself.  

Stay tuned ... to American current events ... wherever they are being honestly reported, and not hidden by those who hijacked mainstream media and turned it into propaganda outlets such as ABC & Disney, Inc.  [For those unaware, Disney has owned ABC TV since 1996.]