Inquisition Torture Methods

Edit: Im not bashing Christianity, these are a list of atrocities that Historical Christians did \"In the name of their God\" falsely.

(Note: This is from Christian Atrocities Fact Page found by typing in \'Google Search: Christian Crimes against Humanity / Google Search: Christian Atrocities threwout History)
I went to nearly 10+ pages to find these Stories, making sure they were historically correct.
Please realize this is not all of their torture methods, either, just a well organized list of the ones i gathered.
And also, realize, that these methods were used by numerous other factions and parties before and after Christians, even though some torture methods such as the Holy Stake were first created by Religious Fundamentalists.

Torture Methods
1. - Breaking on the Wheel.
The naked heretic had each limb and joint broken precisely to avoid any fatal blows. He was then \'braided\' into the spokes of the wheel and hoisted on to a post. There he was exposed to the elements – or left to be twirled by passers by who wanted to join in the fun.


2. - The Pope\'s Pears:
The vaginal pear was used on woman who had sex with the Devil or his familiars. The rectal pear was used on passive male homosexuals and the oral pear was used on heretical preachers or lay persons found guilty of unorthodox practices. Inserted into the mouth, anus or vagina of the victim, the pear was expanded by use of the screw until the insides are ripped, stretched and mutilated, almost always causing death. The pointed ends of the \'leaves\' were good for ripping the throat, intestines or cervix open.

3. - The Judas Cradle:
The victim is raised up by the rope or chain and then lowered until the vagina, anus or the coccyx rests on the point. The torturer could vary the pressure by hanging weights from the victim or rocking or raising and dropping the victim from various heights.\"

4. - Iron Spider:
The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other \"hideous\" crimes.

5. - Strappado:
Designed to dislocate the shoulders of a victim by hoisting him off the ground, allowing him to fall, and stopping him suddenly before he touched the ground. To add to the torment, weights (varying from 50 to 500 pounds) were tied to the victim\'s body to dislocate a greater number of bones.

6. - Cat\'s Paw
A clawed rake, used to rip the person\'s flesh and tear the flesh from the bones of any part of his or her body.

7. - Slow Burn
A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

8. - The Holy Trinity:
When a sinner had \"blasphemed the holy name of god\", or when he had perhaps told some truth about the local priest, it was customary to apply the holy trinity. The Iron mask was heated in an open fire until red hot, then put upon his head. The scourge, also red hot, was then applied to his back. After the mask had cooled, it was removed from the sinner, taking skin (and usually eyeballs) with it. The prisoner\'s mouth was then opened and red hot pincers were used to remove the prisoner\'s tongue.
It is interesting to note that the Holy Trinity was designed not to cause death, so that the maimed, blinded and mute prisoner could live out his days as a burden to his family and as a testimony to what happens when one lets his tongue wag too freely.

Pictures of the Torture Methods

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Wow!
That are some terrible torture ways..like OUCH!

Pictures added.

3 is sick!!

CoolKidX wrote:

3 is sick!!

The womens version of that torture mechanism was much worse as the majority of them moved.

no: INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS

Liche wrote:

no: INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS

Fine, even though they were practiced and first brought up by Christians, i will change it, while some of them were known to be practiced even after the Inquisition by Fundamentalist states...it seems as though it just hides behind this.

Three looks fun!

well, lets see: the Inquisition were the christian fundamentalists who came up with these methods of torture.

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

Three looks fun!

That is one of the 'less' hurtful images, if you really want to see something horrible look it up under a search engine looking for the actual ritual, their wasa a video somewhere that i seen and i clicked away from it nearly right when it started...

Liche wrote:

well, lets see: the Inquisition were the christian fundamentalists who came up with these methods of torture.

Which is why i originally just put Christian.

Liche wrote:

no: INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS

Nobody suspects the Spanish Inquisition!

WeiWuWei wrote:

Liche wrote:

no: INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS

Nobody suspects the Spanish Inquisition!

not even rename

but that right there was an EPIC LAWL


and, PS never noticed their arent very many Protestant extremists? I dreamed before that the US was run by a secret Society called the Protestant Inquisition.

Liche wrote:

not even rename

but that right there was an EPIC LAWL

No more Evil Illuminati Protestant Inquisition dreams for you!

They're always watching you.....

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

They're always watching you.....

no...

I'm out of the hospital now.

We have a permanent exposition of those instruments in Mexico city's historical center.

At least 2 and 3 have been defeated by Kirk Johnson.

Defeated by who? Wha?

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

Defeated by who? Wha?

Go to Encyclopedia Dramatica and search for "Kirk Johnson", then you'll understand how 2 and 3 wouldn't be much of a torture for this man.

I can see already. Anal sex and all. I get t.

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

I can see already. Anal sex and all. I get t.

Not the typical kind of anal sex, though.