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Originally Posted by Stop It
Well, there was always the Inquisition. What happened to those who didn't believe (In Christianity that time)? Death, or life imprisonment. Funny, how that happened around 12-1400 years after Christianity started too.
Islam appears to be going through a similar phase that Christianity did. Does it make it any more bad? Probably not, does it show that religions are more similar to each other than they would ever care to admit and thus should bloody well get along and stop trying to kill each other for not being part of theirs? Probably.
Religion should be able to stand up to scrutiny, and yes, ridicule. If Either causes uproar, then there's some major insecurity in there. As someone who enjoys the film "The Life of Brian" and know that was either threatened with, or banned in places, I know that even now Christianity isn't above getting arsey about satire too.
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Is that the Spanish inquisition that found the vast majority of accused innocent and sentenced most of the remainder to suspended sentences and in doing so saved tens of thousands of people from secular courts that burnt people for heresy. I saw a recent article on the inquisition that said it was the most lenient and best run court in Europe at the time, that's not to say they were pussy cats because they clearly weren't but they were functioning in different times.