Secret Files of the Inquisition
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: Purient Hack Job
Summary: 1 Stars
This documentary focuses on one the very first inquisitions, the Albigensian in southern France in the 13th century.
This is simply one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. The dramatizations are so badly staged and so clearly anti-Christian that it becomes clear that the producers were not trying to portray history but rather project their own anti-Christian and anti-Catholic views, and were willing to lie to do it.
Their portrayal of the Albigensian teaching is incorrect and incomplete; it fails to either mention or highlight some very critical details. They exclude, for example, the ritualistic murder of children and misrepresent what the "endura" is, likening it a form of euthanasia rather than ritualistic suicide by an otherwise healthy person.
They completely ignore the fact that Albigensian teachings claim that absolutely everything in the material world is inherently evil leading followers to, among other things, reject all marriage, women, and governmental authority. This misogynistic creed created tremendous civil unrest in southern France. The documentary also ignores the fact that since the Albigensians considered their own material body as evil, but their immaterial souls as good, dying was a distinct improvement. Thus murdering an enemy actually set them free. And dying yourself was a real benefit. You can only imagine the bloodshed that resulted. And all that happened before local officials begged the Church to call an inquisition.
But if you watch this "show", you will not know any of that. Instead, you will see an evil empire, headquartered in Rome, inexplicably grabbing farmers and shopkeepers to burn them at the stake for sport. That is not what happened, but that is what the producers want you to think.
By failing to put this inquisition in the proper social, religious and political context, they misrepresent history and falsely malign and slander those who were trying to stop murder, revolution and anarchy by the Albigensians.
On the other hand, if you hate the Christianity or the Catholic Church, and do not mind lying to make your point, you will enjoy this work of fiction.
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