That happened in the Englightenment era too. The censhorship, tortures and whatnot, I mean.

>Catholics have generally become far more intellectually sound than the psychopathic libertarian elites that own us now. Their nihilism and narcissism will end up giving us another 1000 years of darkness.

Yeah, unlike the champions on killing 'witches', you know, the Germanic protestants.

Meanwhile, the Spanish Inquisition was depicted as brutal, but, trust me, you would prefer to be trialed by them that some bastard ruthless lord or worse, the villagers being more brutal than the Church itself.

Read about Alphonse X and the Book of Games. A book from the 13th century, Middle Ages, and yet more knowledgeable than the 90% of the self-called "Enlightened" Anglo-Saxon/Germanic protestants reinventing the wheel after the School of Salamanca from similar origins.

Humanism? Trades and agreements between nations? Modern Economics on value and production? It's all there from that School in Castille.