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Originally Posted by Difflugia
Being a "product of the times" doesn't absolve one of guilt. Failing to recognize the evil of the Inquisition because one was its contemporary is no more excusable than civilian Germans furthering the Holocaust, American slave ownership, the racial segregation that followed, or ways that people continue to justify racism, misogyny and homophobia now.
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I'm not trying to excuse it just explain it. There has always been an "us" and a "them" through out history. It isn't right, but it is human nature.