Genesis 12, 20 and 26 tell the same story in different situations, the first two focussing on Sara, the wife of Abraham, and the last on Rebekah. The Holy Ghost has a short memory or has a poor imagination, being so short of plots.
The Spanish Inquisition sought to avoid direct responsibility for the burning of heretics by handing them over to the secular arm. To burn them itself, it piously explained, would be wholly inconsistent with its Christian principles. Few of us would allow the Inquisition thus easily to wipe its hands clean of bloodshed. It knew quite well what would happen.
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