Miscellaneous links

More on the Inquisition:

MariaElena of Tea of Trianon who wrote a book about the Cathars links to this article on the clerical opposition to the Inquisition and preaching against that group.

and people mix up the Papal Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition, and the witchcraft trials (which occured in Protestant areas). Indeed, witchcraft is not only in Christian cultures.... Professor Teofilo Ruiz gives a short talk here on the subject (alas, his university course podcast is locked)



the lectures on science/religion/magic course at Berkeley that I linked to earlier this week also discusses the topic, and again gives one the intellectual history behind the ideas behind the violence.

It's not a defense against these judicial star chambers, but if you don't understand history, you are condemned to repeat it
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not really related, but MariaElena has published a short essay by one of her uncles who lived in the Philippines during world war IIu a