The Spanish Inquisition and Christianity The Spanish Inquisition began as a quest to purify Spain of heretics, but it soon became much more than that. There are two very distinct views of what really happened during the time of the Inquisition. One longstanding belief is that of the terror of the Inquisition as a thing of nightmares where thousands of people were subjected to cruel torture. The other, more modern, view is that the Inquisition …showed first 75 words of 1058 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1058 total…like most other dark periods of history. It was primarily brought on because of prejudices and greed. When one people excel within a society. And they make up the minority, they historically are labeled as scapegoats for the problems of the rest of society. The Renaissance period was obviously the same. It seems strange that in the history of man we still have not found a way to deal with our own petty jealousies.” (4-5)