Moses vs Torquemada

 * If, at some point, you wake-up to discover the world is not against you, then you really are not much of a disciple of Christ and an orthodox Christian Catholic

Moses vs Torquemada

Deuteronomy 19:18 
And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that the false witness hath told a lie against his brother:

Wisdom 1:9
 For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the

ungodly: and the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the

chastising of his iniquities.

Sirach 23:34
 This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and

inquisition shall be made of her children.

In, "Characters of the Inquisition," by the heroic, William Thomas Walsh, it is noted that it was Moses (Title of the First Chapter) who was the first Inquisitor and, as the head of God's Chosen People, he had the duty to keep order amongst his flock and not let the Faith become polluted and destroyed by heresy and apostasy.

And, as Holy Writ testifies, that is what he did:

Moses, the 1st Inquisitor, ordered 23 thousand souls killed here :Exodus 32

27 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, *and friend, and neighbour.

28 And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.

29 And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.

Moses, the 1st Inquisitor, ordered 24 thousand killed here - including women and children; Numbers 25 

And Moses said to the judges of Israel: *Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.

6 And behold one of the children of Israel went in, before his brethren, to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses, and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.

7 *And when Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger,

8 Went in after the Israelite, into the brothel-house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel:

9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men. including all of the women and children

Forty Seven Thousand killed by The First Inquisitor, Moses, including women and children.

Well, that is a bit of an eye-opener, isn't it? I mean, we have not seen a lot of movies about that part of Salvation History, have we?  Gee, I wonder why?

Non-Catholic historian Edward Peters:, in his work, Inquisition(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 87), 

The Spanish Inquisition, in spite of wildly inflated estimates of the numbers of its victims, acted with considerable restraint in inflicting the death penalty, far more restraint than was demonstrated in secular tribunals elsewhere in Europe that dealt with the same kinds of offenses. The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.

Hmmm. 3000 killed by the Crown (and no children) , not the Catholic Church, versus 47,000 ordered killed by Moses. Far more deaths in far fewer days.  

As the head of the Old Chosen People, in order to preserve the Faith, Moses ordered the death of 47,000.

As head of the New Chosen People - 1 Peter ...But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light - The Pope did what he had to do to preserve The Faith against those whom would destroy it and as a result, 3000 were put to death.


Three Thousand versus Forty Seven Thousand.  3000 vs 47,000.


And yet the world choses to focus on the 3000 and there are endless books, movies, articles, sermons preached, and who'n'hell knows what else, oh yeah, Monty Python Sketches, etc etc about the putative complete and total depravity of The Inquisition and the moderns are forever flailing the hide off of Holy Mother Church because of it and nearly all Catholics quail before the all-out assault.

So, I thought it opportune to parade a few facts by today. 

I doubt one in one hundred million Christian Catholics, say nothing about Jews, Protestants, and Atheists, know the facts about Moses as the first Inquisitor and how his record compares unfavorably to Fray Tomas De Tourquemada, about whom the vast majority of Catholics are ignorant and so they consider it comical to hear his name and reputation continually blackened and they would consider it scandalous to even consider an attempt at defending him and The Inquisition, say nothing about actually attempting it.

Who even knows that the great Dominican,  Fray Tomas de Torquemada, whom one contemporary of his, Sebastian de Olmedo, described as, "he hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honor of his order," who even has heard that Fray  Tomas began his Inquisition duties by eliminating abuses that had been allowed to happen under previous authorities?

A William Thomas Walsh notes, "Moses put to death, in the name of religion, a far greater number of human beings than Torquemada did. Yet his name has been venerated by orthodox Jews and Roman Catholic alike, and alwys will be, while that of the Dominican monk has become a stench in the nostrils of the modern world, and a symbol of something indefensible." ("Characters of the Inquisition.")

Far too many Christian Catholics internalise the prejudices of their enemies, then end-up reflexively echoing them when the trigger, "Inquisition," is heard, and they end-up denouncing highly intelligent and charitable men like Cardinal Torquemada, whose reputation at the time was one of impeccable honesty.

Christian Catholics, who have had it EASY in this country, will one day be called to martyrdom and a good way to prepare for that day when you are called to march boldly against manifest evil is to begin with the baby-steps of defending the defensible - especially if the whole world is allied against you. *

The Inquisition is NOT a black stain on the soul of Holy Mother Church. It was a necessary and defensible response against those who wanted to destroy the Camp of the Saints/The Kingdom of God/The New Israel/Holy Mother Church/The One True Church Established By Jesus Christ.