I wonder if magnum knows that the actual inquisition was a very civil thing and also the first introduction of the judical system as we know it, where every herectic defendant was defended and had to be proven quilty via hard evidence or believable witness reports, and that in most cases the people were just released unharmed if they promised to stop being herectics and/or converted to Catholicism, perhaps being marked by a sign on their clothes for a while. Some had their possessions taken away, but that wasn't that commonplace either. Torture was also sometime sused, but overall rather sparsely at it was barely needed. I think in all the time the inquisition took place, only about 400-500 people actually died in a fire due to it; and those were usually cases in which they vehemently refused to just pretend to be believing Catholics from now on or who were also the church's eyesore for other reasons.
