BETWEEN TWO TERRORS?

I hope not. More than almost anything in my life, I hope not.
Which two terrors do I mean? Let’s start with the earliest: the terror that the Inquisition fastened onto Spain in the later 1500s right into the 1600s. That was terror from the top down which claimed to be in search of secret Muslims and Jews with a very occasional Protestant stumbled over.
When the Inquisition came for somebody, it was almost always at night. And once the black robes had their intended victim, they would stop their mouths with something called an ‘iron pear’ or something like it so they could not cry out. I don’t know if any of the Inquisition’s victims were ever seen alive again but I’m not putting any money on that possibility. The effect of that terror on all the people was such as to stop any sharing and discussion of religion and spirituality for generations. I can see a connection between the Inquisition and the odious Fascist motto from the Spanish Civil War of ‘Abajo la intellgencia! Viva la muerte! (Down with intelligence! Long live death!). Not to mention a connection between both and the current cavernous emptiness of too many Spanish churches!
I can see a day coming when the counterfeit ‘Christians’ of the Right try to enforce such terror on the rest of us. They who talk of ‘the sin of empathy’. Yes, you read that only too rightly! Texas seems to be pointing and maybe paving the way for just such a terror on most of us and the Taney Court 2.0 will surely look the other way!
I devoutly hope I am wrong in this, but as I write I can see a time coming when we may have to use a Terror similar not to what I just…