France, Orleans, 1022. For those who thought the Church unnecessary and believed that the Kingdom of God is the heart of every one, was given a message: there was organized the Medieval Court first major public against heresy. Feared cuts in the Inquisition, the charge was synonymous with conviction and sentencing of a sentence of death varied; flagellated and mutilated by torturers, the torn flesh and broken bones, the victims confess absurd things, and those who were lucky would be beheaded or killed in a relatively humane, the unlucky, and burned alive in fire of green wood to prolong the agony. The inquisitors were there while the fire tormenting the victim, and urged it, mercifully, to accept the teachings of the "Church" on whose behalf she was being treated as "mercifully". For there was a contrast to the torture by fire, also practiced the water: "Tying the hands and feet of the prisoner with a rope locked it penetrated the meat and tendons, opened the victim's mouth to force pouring water into it until come to the point of suffocation or a confession ... "It was a real passage of terror that lasted nearly 300 years claiming the lives of thousands of innocent people who had neither the option to fight for their own freedom of expression. This frenzy of hatred and murder spread like fire burning in several places civilized life; France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, England, and for a brief period, igniting jump the Atlantic to the New World.
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