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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amal" data-source="post: 11089313" data-attributes="member: 163">"During the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic Church used its laws on heresy to further its own goals. By defining heresy as anything against Catholic dogma, the Church could “purify” the people of Spain. This meant driving out or killing Jews, Protestants, and any non-believers. While this may sound only like a religious state trying to attain their idea of purification, there was an ulterior motive. Many of the people exiled or killed, especially Jews, were wealthy merchants and landowners. Upon their exile, their property became ownerless. By the law of the Inquisition, that land now belonged to the Church."<a href="https://atheistplissken.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/christianitys-bloody-history/" target="_blank">https://atheistplissken.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/christianitys-bloody-history/</a></blockquote>

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