torquemada

There are of course crazy communists and Christians who think Stalin and Torquemada were great, but they're not by any means the majority.

Christianity didn't make Torquemada any good, but it worked quite well for St.

Christians are aware of Torquemada torturing people and are wary of religious persecution.

That Torquemada believed fervently was little comfort to those burned.

[historical citation needed] It's not for nothing that Torquemada was a synonym for cruelty long before Eco was even born.

Instead of stabbing bolts into your skull through your skin with a device Torquemada would have been proud of, they target versus the dots and if the dots move?

I'll take moslem Spain over Torquemada any day.

For example, the Inquisition rarely used torture, Torquemada only had 1% of his heretics executed, and there is only one documented instance of a woman ever being racked (and it wasn't even part of the Inquisition).

And one doesn't need to invoke Torquemada to make that claim; religion (or any -ism) imposes rules/structures on society that incur complex trade-offs, such that one can't say they are wholly good 100% of the time.

The rabbis teach that successive generations of Jews have been forced to confront the Amalekites: Nebuchadnezzar, the Crusaders, Torquemada, Hitler and Stalin are all manifestations of Amalek’s malevolent spirit." So Netty says that hamAss is an existential threat?

Such people are very helpful for the likes of Torquemada, Hitler and Stalin.

If you are worthy of a table seat by having friends, then you are in one of those fashionable metal seats invented by Torquemada’s welder buddies.

Mueller appears to be a modern Torquemada.