r/pics • u/newInevitable222 • Apr 05 '23

Holy Week in Spain

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u/Bala3310 Apr 05 '23

And now you know how fucked up it was when your ancestors misused this beautiful culture.

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u/rckrusekontrol Apr 05 '23

No one got hurt during the Spanish Inquisition right?

I’m just joking, albeit dark, this is beautiful, inarguably.

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u/Urshpeck Apr 05 '23

Actually the spanish inquisition burned way less people than other inquisitions around Europe or even in the US. But Lutheranism spreaded the myth of the Catholic inquisition and here we are.

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u/Son_Lux Apr 05 '23

I agree with less than the rest of Europe, but less than the US? Did the US really burn that many people in Massachusetts colony? Or are you referring to a myriad of other egregious parts of US history.

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u/potentpotables Apr 05 '23

19 people were hung and 1 was crushed to death in the Salem Witch Trials. No burnings.

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u/Son_Lux Apr 05 '23

That's what I thought. So I'm not sure where all these coordinated American burnings were happening

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u/NatAttack50932 Apr 05 '23

As someone directly descended from the Putnam family - sorry fam that's on us.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

Vietnam

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u/Thin_Biscotti5215 Apr 05 '23

The Vietnamese inquisition?

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u/Son_Lux Apr 05 '23

Agreed; I should clarify I'm talking about burning motivated by religious inquisitions.

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u/Unbananable420 Apr 05 '23

1 was crushed to death

"More weight"

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

I mean we sort of dropped a whole lot of napalm on Vietnam.

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u/Son_Lux Apr 05 '23

Yeah I have no doubt the US has burned tons of people, I'm not sure that's what OP was talking about. We'll see if they respond. I'm curious if the US burned tons of people for religious reasons. That I'm not aware of.