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Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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The Rise of the Inquisition

Since the second vatican council in 19 65, the catholic church has been officially against coercion and open to diversity in religious belief. To a thirteenth century inquisitor, the very freedom to choose in matters of religion that democracies cherish would mean the freedom to perish. And he would refuse to believe that. Heresy was also an issue of occasional concern to rulers in mediaeval islam,. with the mihnas taketed at sandacus; heresy was also persecuted, sometimes vigorously, in the byzantine empire.

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