Inquisition

= **Inquisition** =

**what is The Inquisition?**
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===The Inquisition, which was a place to punish the pagan ,also can called The Inquisition with heresy trials. In 1231 Pope Gregory IX determined by the Dominicans established === === the Inquisition. This court is responsible for the investigation, trial and verdict of the [|Catholic Church] considered heresy ourt has imprisoned and executed dissidents. Noways, the Inquisition is not exist anymore.===

** History of The Inquisition **
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=== Initially, the Inquisition was established in the local diocese , the leader is the Bishop. As the bishop sometimes not their engagements to attend to, leading to the Inquisition was inefficient. So the Pope Gregory IX set up a Inquisition and obey to the pope that the Inquisition was directly under the pope. 1231 Pope Gregory IX issued a " Excommunication " to condemn the heresy, and he wanted to punish heresy in Germany, northern France , Languidness and Italy that he had set up a series Inquisition. The Inquisition's judge were mostly sent by Dominicans monks, so it was easy kept the loyal of the judge by the pope. At that time, the Inquisition is notorious and disgraceful, and the Inquisition was not a organization , at best, was a group of the religious judge. In 1252, Pope was approval of the Inquisition can torture in interrogation. The penalties including confiscation of all property, the flogging, imprisonment, life imprisonment and the stake, because this will also involved the suspects and the associates after the censorship that makes everyone were afraid to the Inquisition. ===

** The crime of The Inquisition **
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=== The centuries of the Inquisition appeared, a number of improper trillion were controlled by the religion. The Inquisition in the Medieval European Society was limit the ideological and cultural development, but the Inquisition was to consolidate the Church 's authority, the most famous was the Galileo's death. On the other hand, the Inquisition was the same crime as Crusades , make a lot of stigmatization for the Catholic Church .===

**According to the novel written by Ayn Rand, there are lots of connections between Anthem and the Inquisition.**

 * ===**First, the highest power is hand by the councils which is many groups of the people, and the Inquisition also makes up by many groups of Dominicans monks that they can punish every person who are against to them. All of those are shows the class of the society.**===
 * ===**Second, the Inquisition was limit the ideological and cultural development that made people fatuous, because it is easy to make a fatuous person feels fear to the pope and be controlled by the pope. Such as the Galileo who was a scientist against the Inquisition that wanted to bring the knowledge to all the people, but he was killed by the Inquisition and no one wanted to help him because they afraid of the Inquisition. In the novel, equality invents the light and glass that he wants to show to the council, but the council also punish equality. If everyone become "equality", the council will difficult to control people because everyone want to choose their own life. So the council is the same as the Inquisition, because they both limit the society's consolidate and cultural development and wants to control each of the person.**===
 * ===**In the other hand, the council of the Anthem and the Inquisition also good at control people's mind that makes people fear. For example, the equity's brother are cry and groan in the night because they council limit their knowledge, and they fear of unknown. The Inquisition used the penalties like the confiscation of all property, flogging, imprisonment, life imprisonment and the stake, and those penalties will involved the suspects and associates that makes everyone fear of the Inquisition.**===
 * ===**Also, the same as the Inquisition and council in the Anthem, everyone must obey to their and can not against to them. This the important connection between them.**===
 * ===**Finally, their is a interesting connection which is that the truth always in a few hands without power.**===

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