16 Nonbelievers in Damned Surprising Places

16 Nonbelievers in Damned Surprising Places June 28, 2016

inquisition

The Inquisition!!

You’re not surprised to find an atheist in the Inquisition? You bloody well should be, and now you’ve ruined the effect. The Inquisition was supposed to find heretics, not atheists. But once in a while they stumbled on an atheist anyway.

One 14th century bishop named Jacques Fournier takes the unusual step of having his interrogations transcribed in detail. It’s through those transcriptions that we meet two nonbelievers: Guillemette and Raimond.


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