What is a bad inquisition?

 

 

 

Basically, to be bad, all you need is one critical shortcoming. For a car to be bad, for example, it doesn't need to have a busted engine AND have a wheel fall off AND bad brakes. Just one of these defects is enough. And of course, the same car can have many defects all at once!

 

Therefore there is almost an infinity of ways to have a bad inquisition. Here are some categories of possible defects:

 

- an inquisition is started up, when none is necessary

- an inquisition is NOT started up, when in fact we really need it

- an inquisition is started to keep the doctrine pure, but the doctrine is bad, so in fact the "wolves" are the people faithful to the doctrine, and the "sheep" are the dissidents

- the inquisition is incomplete (for example, people at the bottom of the hierarchy are questionned, but the ones with the real power, or the actual perpetrators, are excluded from the investigation)

- the inquisition goes beyond its limits (for example people in other churches are chased down, instead of sticking to cleaning up our own backyard)

- innocent people are condemned, or guilty persons get acquitted

- guilty persons are condemned, but without due process

- guilty persons are condemned after due process, but incorrect punishments are handed out (too harsh, too lenient, etc.)

- and so on...

 

 

 

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