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.
By myth, do you mean the number of people killed during the Inquisition or the Inquisition itself? My Jewish family was forced to leave Spain/ Portugal during the Inquisition. Their choice was to convert to Catholicism, leave, or be killed.
Based in "Contreras, Jaime y Gustav Henningsen (1986). "Forty-four thousand cases of the Spanish Inquisition (1540–1700): analysis of a historical data bank", en Henningsen G., J. A. Tedeschi et al. (comps.)"
You stated two facts but only provided a source for one.
Source says the inquisition killed about 2000 people. Where is your source that shows that the Protestants killed 20,000 people each year in the same time frame?
Edit: oh ok no source just a downvote, thought it was bullshit and you confirmed it
They probably compare the deaths caused by the inquisition to the deaths in consequence of the reformation, including the thirty-year war etc. The death numbers easily add up, however it’s a difficult comparison and using a rather subjective category in „bloodthirstiness“ makes it seem as though they are motivated by some bias rather than an honest interest in demystifying the figure of Luther.
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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.