Spanish Inquisition 2

The Jews in Spain were the main reason for the Spanish Inquisiton. Their Religion was one of the most predominant reasons given for why the Spanish Inquisition was started. The Jews and Christians already hated each other prior to the start of the Inquisition : “It is inevitable that there has been disagreement between Jews and Christians: The Christians hating the Jews on account of the Crucifixion; the Jews contemptuous of a sect which had taken …

…Christians and conversos or Jews that would destroy the possibility of Limpieza de Sangre. They saw that the only way of ahieving this goal through the Inquisition. They would kill or drive out all of the Jews from Spain, and therefore achieve Limpieza de Sangre, or so they thought. The killed many Jews, but after the three-hundred and fifty year period of the Inquisitionwas over, many thousands of practicing Jews were still living in Spain.