Good evening everybody encountering for the first time the long shameful tradition of apologetics for the Spanish and papal inquisitions catholicnewsagency.com/news/1367/hist…
And no, it's not just a few individual weirdoes. The 1998 Vatican conference on the Inquisition(s) arrived at a strangely muted verdict. fides.org/en/news/2617-V…
When conservative pundits pooh-pooh the historical inquisitions, that's probably mostly laziness and ignorance. But to some degree, those pundits are also (maybe unconsciously) echoing an apologetic tradition that holds some grip on some elements of the US and European far right.
Anyway, here’s a link to a photo I took today if the remains of the women’s prison in the former HQ of the Spanish Inquisition in Cordoba, Spain instagram.com/p/CUs97TuNQa1/…
... *of* the remains ...
I also today came face-to-face with the famous sculpture of Moses Maimonides here in his native city of Cordoba. Something I had not before appreciated: the statue was raised in 1935 by the doomed Spanish second republic in the last year before the Franco rebellion

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