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Extraordinarily, the effects of the Spanish Inquisition linger to this day

  • Written by Jordi Vidal-Robert, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
Extraordinarily, the effects of the Spanish Inquisition linger to this dayPedro Berruguete Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.Wikimedia

From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya in Myanmar, religious persecution has been a tool of state control for millennia.

While its immediate violence and human consequences are obvious, less obvious is whether it leaves scars...

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