By driving out Jews, Muslims and heretics, he argues, the Inquisition helped impoverish Spain (between 1500 and 1750 the Spanish economy actually shrank).
Though her conversation was interwoven with her religion, Kitty felt that this was natural to her and that no effort was made to influence the heretic.
(3) Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation, whereas a strongly traditional outlook (as in China's emphasis on ancient Chinese classics) stifles it.
During the Renaissance there was a tremendous thirst for trying witches, burning heretics, magic and superstition, bloody religious wars – and not least, the brutal conquest of America.
" Lioness roar" was originally a Buddhist term, which was roughly used to describe the Dharma as being able to resist evil demons and heretics, with boundless power.
He was denounced as a heretic for suggesting that quiet internal reflection and contemplation of God was OK, alongside traditional outward, and vocal displays of religiousness - like chanting and prayer.