Uncivilized Christian Church Owned And Operated Brutal Inquisition-Crusade

Ever since President Obama gave his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, there has been such an incredible uproar. Most of it has been foolish, historically inaccurate and incredibly irresponsible. Rev. Fr. Raymond de Souza, a Catholic priest and a columnist for the National Post criticized Mr. Obama for dipping his toes into the deep waters of history. With such a “telling off”  the time has now come to put history in its proper perspective

More than a thousand years ago, Visigoths, Celts, Romans, Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in the Iberian Peninsular, producing a unique and pluralistic society. Yet in a few centuries, Spain would transform itself from a multicultural nation to the least intolerant country in Europe. Visigoths accused the minority Jews of plotting to take over the Kingdom and murder the Christians. They had made Christianity the ideological center of the political state, making conformity to that religion an unquestionable condition for residing there. They also declared that only Catholics can live in Spain. Centuries later, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle agreed, ushering in the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews. The Moors had been defeated in the “Holy Reconquest” and Spain descended from religious pluralism to religious tyranny.

Catholic clergy had been persistently calling for the conversion and destruction of Judaism. They believed the Second Coming of Christ will take place only when the Jews accepted Christianity. Religion was a matter of faith, not race and since doctrine held that baptism altered the soul, the “stain” of Judaism was instantly blotted out and from that moment on, the baptized Jew was instantly a member of Christianity in an officially declared Christian land.  In the 20th. century, the Nazis taking the cue from their spirited forebearers in Spain,