Inquisition

Today we talked about Inquisition and what inquisition is. Last night we were split up into groups and each group read two different readings. We were all put into our groups and we talked about the reading about Inquisition and we came up with a few main points. The system of Inquisition was basically a way to identify heresy or other things that could pose as a threat to their religion or, more importantly their judicial system. They used religion as an excuse (yet again) to question people and get them back on the same page as the government. Inquisitors, we found, were rather similar to missionaries except instead of trying to get people to convert they were, essentially,  trying to get people to agree with them. They were like more specialized missionaries, in a way. Inquisition seems like it was a lot like interrogation and actually another comparison that we found was between the Inquisitors and the Stasi. Like the Stasi, inquisitors chose who they were going to interrogate based on superstition about this person and their beliefs, and that was what the Stasi did. People who were suspected of not following the primary religious fold and found guilty were then apprehended and changed if not killed. Sometimes these people were tortured in order to either get them to confess to believing differently them the main religious fold or to force the main ideas of the religious fold upon them. Either way this gave the government and the inquisitors power because they are forcing people to believe in what they want them to believe in.