There are words that, in the contemporary imagination, seem to carry a verdict even before they are explained. One of them is Inquisition. For millions of people, merely pronouncing this word immediately evokes images of bonfires, torture, fanaticism, obscurantism, and a Church obsessed with persecuting those who thought differently. The …
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