[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 103, Issue 6

[Richard Hayes]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 16:07, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> Exactly my point. The Inquisition was aimed only at Catholics who were practicing some other religion alongside their Catholicism.
> 
> [me]
> No, it was aimed at deviance WITHIN a single religion.

Right. The form the deviation took was importing into Catholicism practiced from other religions. In other words, the behavior deemed deviant was the very widespread behavior of practicing two religions at once. Most people did it. The Catholic authorities―i withdraw the term "fanatics", since that makes you think of cartoons for some reason) were alarmed by the widespread behavior of the European (and later the American and African) peoples.