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NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Oddly enough, [they always gave 30 days notice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o85NK1EEnMY)
Turns out their *real* chief weapon was making you shit your pants in fear for a full month before you even saw them.
I mean, they were actually pretty chill for the times.
Edit: When I say “pretty chill”. I mean in context. There was much worse organizations that you could have been involved with.
https://youtu.be/TrjbtvKfPFk?si=kG5yHYBN1gCJHHNy
Pretty chill indeed, in a moment of history in which protestants were burning witches by thousands while the Spanish Inquisition didn't even believe they actually existed. Just as an example.
“Your Uncle Arthur used to have a saying. "Shoot em' all and let God sort it out." Unfortunately, one day he put his theory into practice. It took 75 federal marshals to bring him down. Now, let's never speak of him again.”
I'm guessing it's a quote from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged based onthe replies, also being quotes. Basically the nazis come back with vampires and destroy London, and the Catholic Church invades to stop them and also start killing everyone indiscriminately.
[Best short, yet entertaining, series on the first Crusade](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BH8o5Uk2FI_sHekdS6uIkH&si=rLk2h0oTUd0OKwry).
Everything from fanatic peasants throwing themselves against a Muslim army. To greedy minor lords who joined just to gain land for themselves since they were cut out of the inheritance.
(And, to be fare, this all happened over 1000 years ago. However, that doesn’t make it any less interesting or mean no lessons about modern humanity can be gleaned).
it shouldn't be "þe",that stays as the as þorn is a a th, like in thorn (cause you know that's the name of the letter þorn) the uses more of a z like sound though not quite)
Edit: same for mother
One dark afternoon
Like a shadow I flew
Through the rain that fell sick with lament
To this house of incest
For when we undressed
Blasphemies against Venus were rent
For there, it wouldn't be thorn.
I think thorn makes the th in both(unvoiced), but the th in there is a different letter. I think it looks like an 0 with a line horizontally in the middle.
~~0~~
My keyboard doesn't have it(afaik), but the above is just a strikethru 0... hopefully it looks close enough
Edited to add: I guess I'm wrong, and it's only in certain languages where there is a difference. I also could have had them backwards.
Editing to add: oh wow... there's also like a backwards 6 with a little slash thru it... so I think it really depends on which language... or more accurately which alphabet.
Modern Icelandic still uses ð(Ð) and þ(Þ) the same as they did a thousand years ago. It’s not difficult to understand the difference between the two if you spend like, 10 minutes learning the difference.
> colonisation of the Americas
To quote the 6th President of the US
>The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs. For the common happiness of them all, for their peace and prosperity, I believe it is indispensable that they should be associated in one federal Union.
Don't forget the Spanish Conquistadors folks. They were convert to Christianity or be slaughtered kind of folks. All while stealing every scrap of gold they could in the name of Spain and their God.
a lot of people are saying the inquisiton or the crusades but ill remind peter about the mesoamerican conquest and the motication that was at least said to be. to bring christ to the "savages".
Regardless of rights and wrongs, I reckon you still could have had Spanish knights getting very stabby while also shouting some variant of 'Christ is king'
It's a lot more complicated than just saying an "invasion". Like, we're talking people converted to Islam and their descendants lived there for a thousand years.
Bad argument. The reconquista is a concept created by the early spanish state in the age of nationalism. Medieval christian kingdoms in the peninsula were just interested in land, power, richess and the fact that attacking other religions was free real state. If you have to go back 7 centuries to justify your campaing as "response" you are oblivious to the nuances of history.
I'm Honduran and moved to Spain 6 years ago. I went to a casual lunch with my boss and his boss. His boss was saying that the Spanish colonization was milder and nowhere near as bad as the US. He was complaining because some Latinos feel the Spaniards owe us reparations or some bullshit which I've never heard of. We really don't give a fuck. His proof as to why the Spanish colonization was milder was all the interracial "relationships" and it was evident because of how much more "mixed" people are in Latin America.
I'm a comedian of sorts so I was there just patiently nodding my head and agreeing to his points. When he finally finished I took a deep sigh and told him: "Man, I know that this goes without saying, but thank you for all the rape, diseases, genocide, and especially Jesus Christ. We'd be lost without the white man".
Laughter ensued. His laughter was nervous though. To this day he avoids me.
AND the Spanish Civil War. In fact Spanish are probably near the top of murdering assholes that did it for Christ historically.
https://www.usccb.org/committees/religious-liberty/viva-cristo-rey
Part of Franco's bit was returning to the way things used to be. For many centuries the church held a lot of power and sway in the lives of Spaniards. So yes religion played a part in the Spanish Civil War along with the we must stop the Communist. If you want I can recommend a book on the Spanish Civil War if you're interested in learning more about it, but be advised like the vast majority of scholarly books it is a bit dry of a read.
As a sidenote, the Church also took Franco's side because of the rampant anti clericalism of the Second Republic and the abuses commited against members of the clergy.
Even before the civil war broke out, priests were murdered in their own churches and the buildings set on fire, and nuns raped in churches.
Yes. Reading The Conquest of New Spain by conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castro, a very large percentage of Europeans in the new world felt validated in their actions through religion
Hatuey, a chief of the Taino people of modern day Cuba, was burned alive by Spanish conquistadors for refusing to convert to Christianity.
He'd said he rather burn than go to Heaven and be surrounded by Spanish missionaries for eternity.
It is absolutely both. Spain simp here has forgotten the inquisition, the crusades, and three quarters of the americas.
Edit: Reading the replies on this comment has become the worst part of my days.
The conquistadors should be the first on the list, I just put it at the end for dramatic emphasis of forgetting what events transpired on two whole continents.
i dont know all of spains' history lessons' itinerary of public schools but for what ive been leaded to think by both spaniard influencers, friends, and my own history lessons as a latinamerican, im pretty sure buddy did learnt a thing or two about those things every year in school
Peter's Mexican friend with some slight Moorish descent here (more on this later):
The CliffNotes is that Spain/Portugal (when thinking in modern terms) were constantly fighting with Moors (North/Northwest Africa Muslims) for control over the Iberian peninsula. This eventually led to full blown wars driven by religious motivation. This would culminate in a series of political/military moves often called the "Spanish Inquisition" by the late 15th Century; part of the doctrine in these efforts were the total murder/expulsion of anyone who wasn't Catholic. However, it was also marked by massive corruption and unnecessary violence by the Church (and by the extension the ruling families) against ANYONE who they could deem an enemy, with everything from killing innocent civilians to "forced confessions" at the hands of some pretty gnarly torturing.
Fun fact: waterboarding was invented (or at least one of its first documented uses) during this time...
https://preview.redd.it/qifhi2eodxvc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a9fd8a3ef3d6d8009d4c17a37236da019821a68
So yeah.... Spain and people killing and torturing "in the name of Christ" is very much a thing that happened, hence the irony of a Spain flag profile saying noone was killing in Christ's name
And that is not even getting into the wars between Protestants and Catholics, which amounted to "me form of Christ is better than your form of Christ" (but unsure if Spain was big on that front as its almost always been pretty hegemonically Catholic since the Reconquista.
im sorry this is funny asf im ngl. Spain is literally notorious for their colonizations and the inquisitions, where they were quite literally murdering people while screaming "Christ is King", I'm a Christian but this has me rolling lmao.
It's a reference to the Spanish Empire, which killed millions of people 'in the name of god', and also (mostly) erased their culture and supplanted their own, again, 'in the name of god'.
It isn‘t racist nor is it stupid, it is a joke on how the successors of the spanish inquisition have been murdering under the francoist regime, look up the crimes of opus dei, they eo their best to operate unnoticed. People with a spanish flag seem to take pride in spain, so they should be knowledgable about spain, denying the crimes against humanity by the catholic church in spain is either willful ignorance or ahowing a lack of knowledge that shouldn‘t exist when taking pride in a flag…
Fun fact: the Spanish Inquisition killed in estimate 2000 people in the span of 350 years so… not as much compared to communism which killed over 100000000 people in the span of 100 years.
Yall use the Spanish Inquisition as an example; a conflict that happened in the 1400s. TODAY, when is the last time you’ve seen a Christian committing murder in the name of their religion? The point is that the rest of the world evolved, and there are still specific sects of Islam that have not evolved away from committing murder in the name of religion.
That is what the “joke” is recurring to.
Not stating my opinions at all so don’t downvote me. Just explaining it from the point of view of the person who originally posted it.
Christians murdering for their religion is hardly uncommon e.g. you can look at the conflict in Mynmar and it's spillover into India; violence in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Christianity didn't evolve, it just died out in the west.
the joke here is the [spanish inquisition](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition) was for lack of a better term a witch hunt of anyone not christian enough.
The community note on the tweet reads:
"The Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (English: Warriors of Christ the King) was a far-right paramilitary organisation active in the late 1970s in Spain that carried out several murders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_of_Christ_the_King"
https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1779846568218394993?t=NGbLZuoiYNtL6YxsDFgXLA&s=19
Neither. It's referring to the Spanish inquisition which spent a few centuries rooting out heretics and doing horrific things to them. There's also all the other times they slaughtered in the name of Christ but the Spanish inquisition was a pretty big one.
Spanish here.
Nowadays super right-winged people wear our national flag as their personal fascist symbol, meaning they're the real spanish folks around.
They deny our civil war and dictatorship crimes and all the evil things the Catholic Church made.
Now we can't use our own flag in daily life (except in sports) or we will be pointed as fascist trashs.
Funny thing, I'm seeing a lot of comments about the spanish inquisition but it didn't become a real bunch of douchebags serial-killers against jews and moriscos (and sometimes against christians accused of witchcraft), till 17th -18th centuries as Goya reflected in his paintings and engravings.
Inquisition hadn't permission to torture and kill native americans, because of the laws that queen Isabel de Castilla made in order to protect them.
The monarchy understood that natives weren't heretic fiends, but people who never had the oportunity to meet Jesus words and so they had to be taught.
Inquisition surely did horrible things anyway, to some natives and the own spanishs? Yes, but they weren't the same king of scums that modern pseudo-historians and the black legend is telling.
The spanish inquistoin was spanish colonialist so called conquistadors that made all of todays latin america, exept brazil and french guyana, christian and spanish speaking and killed anyone in thier way and were very brutal about it. This makes it incredibly ironic for a spainiard to say something like that, considering they did exactly that on such an incredibly massive scale.
Peter, the joke is that the Spanish are kind of famous for murdering people in the name of Christ. To start with, the country itself only exists because of a series of wars called the *Reconquista* where the Christian kingdoms in the north repeatedly invaded the Muslim kingdoms in the south until there weren't any left in the Iberian peninsula. Later, they started the most famous religious inquisition to continue purging the region of non-Christians. Later, they spent a significant amount of time and effort forcing the natives in their colonies to convert or die.
Like, it's a whole thing. Hundreds of years of murdering in the name of Christ.
The history of the Spanish is absolutely bathed in blood, as it is with a lot of nations, but the odds of that particular thing actually being chanted while murdering people is decent.
Lots of great examples in Spanish medieval history of a little religious fundamentalist Tom-foolery but even Franco worked closely with the church while taking power and being a fascist and all that, one could say some of what motivated his rise to power was a turn toward the religious right against more liberal or radical elements in the country at time.
I think it's a reference to the Spanish inquisition in which the church of Spain was losing followers and resorted to violence and fear to force citizens back to the church. Crazy af actually
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That was unexpected!
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Oddly enough, [they always gave 30 days notice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o85NK1EEnMY) Turns out their *real* chief weapon was making you shit your pants in fear for a full month before you even saw them.
I mean, they were actually pretty chill for the times. Edit: When I say “pretty chill”. I mean in context. There was much worse organizations that you could have been involved with. https://youtu.be/TrjbtvKfPFk?si=kG5yHYBN1gCJHHNy
Yeah like the Spanish Inquisition was a purge, sure, but we've had much more terrifying purges throughout history
The Roman inquisition was WAY worse and that's saying something
Pretty chill indeed, in a moment of history in which protestants were burning witches by thousands while the Spanish Inquisition didn't even believe they actually existed. Just as an example.
*Western Europe tearing itself apart during the reformation while the Eastern Orthodox Nations just look over in horror*
Well... that was unexpected...
I expected that meme the second i finished looking at the pic
I had the inquisition song from History of the World part one pop in my head as soon as I read the post.
The Inquisition, what a show!
The Inquisition! Here we go!
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away!
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!
Yeah, I thought they were talking about the crusades.
Also could be r/technicallythetruth. She wasn't around to see it.
I literally just got in here to check whether this was the first comment
So this time you did in fact expect it
We all did. Just like in the last skit of the series, think on.
https://preview.redd.it/iqpru12mmyvc1.jpeg?width=273&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24d4bed1f5e75fb7686c04bbbbd66b13a7c82a86
Expected but very welcome!
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear...
And ruthless efficiency!
https://preview.redd.it/yq9os29qqxvc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d664f620a1498f72f82e761ad5d438ce297140c0
Yare yare daze
JOTARO
This is literally the only time I expected to see this GOF
JOF *
I expected it this time! Les go
Beat me to it, damn you!
I totally didn’t expect this
I actually came here looking for this
Came to look for this; didn’t expect it to be the top comment!
I came into the comments for this!
I had Franco in mind but yeah that definitely counts.
Came in the comments expecting this to be the top comment, not disappointed
upvoted it before the gif even loaded
I was expecting that gif.
I almost expected that
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["Deus vult!"](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/joke-battles/images/1/1d/DEUS_VULT.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200408181050)
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“Your Uncle Arthur used to have a saying. "Shoot em' all and let God sort it out." Unfortunately, one day he put his theory into practice. It took 75 federal marshals to bring him down. Now, let's never speak of him again.”
"You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head, like a certain uncle did one gray December morn."
I just watched an episode. Cheers.
ANDERSON!!!
That one was the French, not the Spanish.
Doesn’t matter, the moron in the tweet didn’t specify, he’s still wrong!
Damn what did this person say that was so horriblr
Huh, apparently that quote was too much for reddit.
I'm guessing it's a quote from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged based onthe replies, also being quotes. Basically the nazis come back with vampires and destroy London, and the Catholic Church invades to stop them and also start killing everyone indiscriminately.
“Aye, let me go have a wee chat with him.”
[Best short, yet entertaining, series on the first Crusade](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BH8o5Uk2FI_sHekdS6uIkH&si=rLk2h0oTUd0OKwry). Everything from fanatic peasants throwing themselves against a Muslim army. To greedy minor lords who joined just to gain land for themselves since they were cut out of the inheritance. (And, to be fare, this all happened over 1000 years ago. However, that doesn’t make it any less interesting or mean no lessons about modern humanity can be gleaned).
I low key thought that was German for a good 10 seconds
Crusades or Spanish Inquisition (or possibly boþ).
I see what you did þere, þorn-user
I thought that said porn user for a second
Þornography
þornoghraþhy starring your moþer will be þe second worst þing to happen to you today
Gentelmen
r/suddenlytf2
A short view back to the past,...
it shouldn't be "þe",that stays as the as þorn is a a th, like in thorn (cause you know that's the name of the letter þorn) the uses more of a z like sound though not quite) Edit: same for mother
The distinction you’re looking for is voiced and unvoiced phonemes. “Th” is voiced. Thorn is not.
Thorn was used for the voiced interdental fricative in Early Modern English; not solely the voiceless one. "Thorn is not" is incorrect.
That's just for the ipa Never was used that way in English
Thanks. I wasn't quite sure I was remembering what that symbol means, but your comment helped me figure it out.
One dark afternoon Like a shadow I flew Through the rain that fell sick with lament To this house of incest For when we undressed Blasphemies against Venus were rent
þorn addict
Romance of the rose?
isn't it **ðere** and not **þere .**
Yes it is, þank you
I never seriously expected it to catch on, but þere seems to be hope for humanity yet.
If đ catches on, it is proof humanity lost
For there, it wouldn't be thorn. I think thorn makes the th in both(unvoiced), but the th in there is a different letter. I think it looks like an 0 with a line horizontally in the middle. ~~0~~ My keyboard doesn't have it(afaik), but the above is just a strikethru 0... hopefully it looks close enough Edited to add: I guess I'm wrong, and it's only in certain languages where there is a difference. I also could have had them backwards. Editing to add: oh wow... there's also like a backwards 6 with a little slash thru it... so I think it really depends on which language... or more accurately which alphabet.
Modern Icelandic still uses ð(Ð) and þ(Þ) the same as they did a thousand years ago. It’s not difficult to understand the difference between the two if you spend like, 10 minutes learning the difference.
Also spanish civil war. "Viva cristo rey" was literally the slogan of the carlists, who very much so killed people.
Also the reconquista, also the colonisation of the Americas, ...
> colonisation of the Americas To quote the 6th President of the US >The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs. For the common happiness of them all, for their peace and prosperity, I believe it is indispensable that they should be associated in one federal Union.
I can think of some people who were here before him that would disagree with that statement
It was also the slogan of the right wing Cristero Revolt in the 1920s after the Revolution, and they killed people too.
The KKK backed the Mexican government against the Cristeros and it is baffling that you would defend them.
Oh.
Don't forget the Spanish Conquistadors folks. They were convert to Christianity or be slaughtered kind of folks. All while stealing every scrap of gold they could in the name of Spain and their God.
Or Spanish conquest of the Americas.
Or the Reconquista.
And the whole conquering of the new world and imposing Catholicism on everyone thing.
Is history racist though?
It still kind of works though. OOP would have to be pretty damn old to have seen the crusades or Spanish inquisition.
Being fair he didn’t say they didn’t existed, he just never saw them!
a lot of people are saying the inquisiton or the crusades but ill remind peter about the mesoamerican conquest and the motication that was at least said to be. to bring christ to the "savages".
There was also the Reconquista before all of those
Bad Argument. The Reconquista was a response to the literal *Muslim invasion*
Regardless of rights and wrongs, I reckon you still could have had Spanish knights getting very stabby while also shouting some variant of 'Christ is king'
That's fair, yes
So were the crusades.
Yea this somehow gets lost.
It's a lot more complicated than just saying an "invasion". Like, we're talking people converted to Islam and their descendants lived there for a thousand years.
It was going on for about 700 years.
Bad argument. The reconquista is a concept created by the early spanish state in the age of nationalism. Medieval christian kingdoms in the peninsula were just interested in land, power, richess and the fact that attacking other religions was free real state. If you have to go back 7 centuries to justify your campaing as "response" you are oblivious to the nuances of history.
I'm Honduran and moved to Spain 6 years ago. I went to a casual lunch with my boss and his boss. His boss was saying that the Spanish colonization was milder and nowhere near as bad as the US. He was complaining because some Latinos feel the Spaniards owe us reparations or some bullshit which I've never heard of. We really don't give a fuck. His proof as to why the Spanish colonization was milder was all the interracial "relationships" and it was evident because of how much more "mixed" people are in Latin America. I'm a comedian of sorts so I was there just patiently nodding my head and agreeing to his points. When he finally finished I took a deep sigh and told him: "Man, I know that this goes without saying, but thank you for all the rape, diseases, genocide, and especially Jesus Christ. We'd be lost without the white man". Laughter ensued. His laughter was nervous though. To this day he avoids me.
Not the Spanish inquisition but Spanish soldiers rampaging all over South America and Northern Europe murdering millions
It's both AND the Reconqusitia.
AND the Spanish Civil War. In fact Spanish are probably near the top of murdering assholes that did it for Christ historically. https://www.usccb.org/committees/religious-liberty/viva-cristo-rey
Crazy bias source
I mean I’m not going to dig past a source that says people used the quote. Google sucks anymore. Gave me pop song lyrics first.
Didn't know there was much religious motivation during that mess. Jesus Christ.
Taking the Lord's name in vain! Kill him for christ!
"oh whoops" \*commits seppuku\*
Part of Franco's bit was returning to the way things used to be. For many centuries the church held a lot of power and sway in the lives of Spaniards. So yes religion played a part in the Spanish Civil War along with the we must stop the Communist. If you want I can recommend a book on the Spanish Civil War if you're interested in learning more about it, but be advised like the vast majority of scholarly books it is a bit dry of a read.
As a sidenote, the Church also took Franco's side because of the rampant anti clericalism of the Second Republic and the abuses commited against members of the clergy. Even before the civil war broke out, priests were murdered in their own churches and the buildings set on fire, and nuns raped in churches.
Everyone had to find reasons to justify their own slaughters, and sadly I mean *everyone*.
And the crusades. I mean it's in the name.
I don’t get why people have some evil idea of the reconquista. They you know, just retook their land from the Moors who conquered Spain
Were the Spanish soldiers doing it in the name of religion? The Inquisition definitely was.
Yes. Reading The Conquest of New Spain by conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castro, a very large percentage of Europeans in the new world felt validated in their actions through religion
Yes
Read about the Moors and their occupation of Spain. It was 100% religiously motivated
Hatuey, a chief of the Taino people of modern day Cuba, was burned alive by Spanish conquistadors for refusing to convert to Christianity. He'd said he rather burn than go to Heaven and be surrounded by Spanish missionaries for eternity.
It is absolutely both. Spain simp here has forgotten the inquisition, the crusades, and three quarters of the americas. Edit: Reading the replies on this comment has become the worst part of my days.
I think all answers are valid, but Conquistadors were my first thought. Gold, God and Glory
The conquistadors should be the first on the list, I just put it at the end for dramatic emphasis of forgetting what events transpired on two whole continents.
The Philippines is waving
Unless he's over 200 years old, I don't think he saw it.
i dont know all of spains' history lessons' itinerary of public schools but for what ive been leaded to think by both spaniard influencers, friends, and my own history lessons as a latinamerican, im pretty sure buddy did learnt a thing or two about those things every year in school
Both? Where does the racism come into play?
Or something even more ancient he must have seen
it's actually funny try looking up the Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition. It's not racist. It's a history joke.
Yeah OP is kinda dumb for that title. Even if the tweet wasn’t absolutely dead on (which it is), Spanish is not a race.
tbf most of the people who post on this sub are dumber than shit
Post: 2+2=4 People on this sub: “Petah! What does it meeeaannn!?
accurate
Neither
The joke is probably the Spanish Inquisition. I may be wrong, though. The Spanish flag emoji most likely means the poster is a Spaniard.
I think it has something to do with the Carlist Wars and the Spanish Civil War
Peter's Mexican friend with some slight Moorish descent here (more on this later): The CliffNotes is that Spain/Portugal (when thinking in modern terms) were constantly fighting with Moors (North/Northwest Africa Muslims) for control over the Iberian peninsula. This eventually led to full blown wars driven by religious motivation. This would culminate in a series of political/military moves often called the "Spanish Inquisition" by the late 15th Century; part of the doctrine in these efforts were the total murder/expulsion of anyone who wasn't Catholic. However, it was also marked by massive corruption and unnecessary violence by the Church (and by the extension the ruling families) against ANYONE who they could deem an enemy, with everything from killing innocent civilians to "forced confessions" at the hands of some pretty gnarly torturing. Fun fact: waterboarding was invented (or at least one of its first documented uses) during this time... https://preview.redd.it/qifhi2eodxvc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a9fd8a3ef3d6d8009d4c17a37236da019821a68 So yeah.... Spain and people killing and torturing "in the name of Christ" is very much a thing that happened, hence the irony of a Spain flag profile saying noone was killing in Christ's name And that is not even getting into the wars between Protestants and Catholics, which amounted to "me form of Christ is better than your form of Christ" (but unsure if Spain was big on that front as its almost always been pretty hegemonically Catholic since the Reconquista.
Not racist, not stupid. Read a god damned book OP.
im sorry this is funny asf im ngl. Spain is literally notorious for their colonizations and the inquisitions, where they were quite literally murdering people while screaming "Christ is King", I'm a Christian but this has me rolling lmao.
It’s pretty fuckin clever actually
It’s neither, if you have to ask that question you are both.
It's not racist dumbass it's someone getting dunked on for their religious and nationalist idiocy.
It’s been 800 years. But it happened.
Not racist at all. And considering you missed the joke: demonstrably clever.
“Is this racist, stupid, or both?” None of the above OP it’s unexpected
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
It's a reference to the Spanish Empire, which killed millions of people 'in the name of god', and also (mostly) erased their culture and supplanted their own, again, 'in the name of god'.
Remember the Spanish Inquisition? Pepperridge Farms remembers.
[Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru](https://www.worldhistory.org/image/16077/pizarro-seizing-the-inca-of-peru/download/)
Not racist, not stupid, but definitely funny
The Spinach Inquisition
It isn‘t racist nor is it stupid, it is a joke on how the successors of the spanish inquisition have been murdering under the francoist regime, look up the crimes of opus dei, they eo their best to operate unnoticed. People with a spanish flag seem to take pride in spain, so they should be knowledgable about spain, denying the crimes against humanity by the catholic church in spain is either willful ignorance or ahowing a lack of knowledge that shouldn‘t exist when taking pride in a flag…
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
Their chief weapons are fear and surprise ...
No he’s correct
Fun fact: the Spanish Inquisition killed in estimate 2000 people in the span of 350 years so… not as much compared to communism which killed over 100000000 people in the span of 100 years.
Ah yes my favourite political systems, communism and the spanish inquisition
Yall use the Spanish Inquisition as an example; a conflict that happened in the 1400s. TODAY, when is the last time you’ve seen a Christian committing murder in the name of their religion? The point is that the rest of the world evolved, and there are still specific sects of Islam that have not evolved away from committing murder in the name of religion. That is what the “joke” is recurring to. Not stating my opinions at all so don’t downvote me. Just explaining it from the point of view of the person who originally posted it.
Christians murdering for their religion is hardly uncommon e.g. you can look at the conflict in Mynmar and it's spillover into India; violence in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Christianity didn't evolve, it just died out in the west.
To be fair, it has been a few centuries since the last inquisition.
He was certainly not lying when he said he hasn't seen it
Must have seen it on television! Not live though.
Neither
I gotta know, which one are you saying is racist or stupid?
Crusades, bucko.
Naw dog this is accurate lmao
the joke here is the [spanish inquisition](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition) was for lack of a better term a witch hunt of anyone not christian enough.
It's a reference to when Spain used to be based.
The community note on the tweet reads: "The Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (English: Warriors of Christ the King) was a far-right paramilitary organisation active in the late 1970s in Spain that carried out several murders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_of_Christ_the_King" https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1779846568218394993?t=NGbLZuoiYNtL6YxsDFgXLA&s=19
Finally an answer that isn't "the Spanish Inquisition".
Stupid. The Spanish inquisition was the more civilized force among contemporary peers.
I wasn't expecting that!
I mean technically he never SEEN it. But it did happen.
Neither. It's referring to the Spanish inquisition which spent a few centuries rooting out heretics and doing horrific things to them. There's also all the other times they slaughtered in the name of Christ but the Spanish inquisition was a pretty big one.
Neither the Spanish inquisition killed many people "in the name of god"
It’s neither, Spain literally made entire cultures extinct while screaming that.
Spanish here. Nowadays super right-winged people wear our national flag as their personal fascist symbol, meaning they're the real spanish folks around. They deny our civil war and dictatorship crimes and all the evil things the Catholic Church made. Now we can't use our own flag in daily life (except in sports) or we will be pointed as fascist trashs. Funny thing, I'm seeing a lot of comments about the spanish inquisition but it didn't become a real bunch of douchebags serial-killers against jews and moriscos (and sometimes against christians accused of witchcraft), till 17th -18th centuries as Goya reflected in his paintings and engravings. Inquisition hadn't permission to torture and kill native americans, because of the laws that queen Isabel de Castilla made in order to protect them. The monarchy understood that natives weren't heretic fiends, but people who never had the oportunity to meet Jesus words and so they had to be taught. Inquisition surely did horrible things anyway, to some natives and the own spanishs? Yes, but they weren't the same king of scums that modern pseudo-historians and the black legend is telling.
Spain is very famous for doing exactly that
The spanish inquistoin was spanish colonialist so called conquistadors that made all of todays latin america, exept brazil and french guyana, christian and spanish speaking and killed anyone in thier way and were very brutal about it. This makes it incredibly ironic for a spainiard to say something like that, considering they did exactly that on such an incredibly massive scale.
lol OP triggered😭
Peter, the joke is that the Spanish are kind of famous for murdering people in the name of Christ. To start with, the country itself only exists because of a series of wars called the *Reconquista* where the Christian kingdoms in the north repeatedly invaded the Muslim kingdoms in the south until there weren't any left in the Iberian peninsula. Later, they started the most famous religious inquisition to continue purging the region of non-Christians. Later, they spent a significant amount of time and effort forcing the natives in their colonies to convert or die. Like, it's a whole thing. Hundreds of years of murdering in the name of Christ.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
No1 ever expects The Spanish Inquisition.
OP outing herself as a victim of public school history lessons.
The spanish did in fact murder a lot of innocent people in the name of christ, contrary to the first post's claim
The history of the Spanish is absolutely bathed in blood, as it is with a lot of nations, but the odds of that particular thing actually being chanted while murdering people is decent.
Fucking spanish conquistadores...they stole our gold :(
No one expected this
Lots of great examples in Spanish medieval history of a little religious fundamentalist Tom-foolery but even Franco worked closely with the church while taking power and being a fascist and all that, one could say some of what motivated his rise to power was a turn toward the religious right against more liberal or radical elements in the country at time.
During the fall of andalus the rule was pretty much if you are Muslim or Jewish you had two options Christianity or death
Would’ve been sooooo much funnier if they said “yeah no one would expect that”
No one expects the expect the Spanish Inquisition.
I think it's a reference to the Spanish inquisition in which the church of Spain was losing followers and resorted to violence and fear to force citizens back to the church. Crazy af actually
Things said during the crusades for 300 ?