Question for Jews/Israelis only - if you HAD to choose, would you prefer to convert to Christianity or Islam?

suicide not option??? did know there centuries when jews did when forced convert christianity. read history inquisition.

torture forbidden canon law in 1252 pope innocent iv sanctioned use of torture , granted dispensation inquisitors present during application. psychological torture: potent weapon in hands of inquisitors. prisoners confronted friends , relatives begging confession; canon law still permitted torture used once repeated after delay use of legal device of continuance psychology of delay including continuance common, lifting , lowering hopes on period of years; prisoners kept in state of ignorance of fate , of families , strict regime of confinement in chains or other devices on meagre diet employed.
physical torture: in spain usual method bind arms tightly behind back, attach heavy weights legs, lift victim ground means of pulley , jerk down. alternate waterboarding method strap victim arms, waist, thighs , calves trestle ladder sharp rungs , tighten ropes, lacerating flesh. trestle sloped head down, head restrained , mouth forced open iron devices. water intermittently introduced throat inducing gagging , vomiting. more familiar rack used in later years, along thumbscrews , other instruments.
humiliation: victims, both men , women, tortured naked. in addition, victims told if died under torture, church consider had committed suicide , go straight hell; whereas point of view of torturers had merely made mistake or accident.
relationship civil law: since church 'shed no blood' guilty had handed on civil authorities final punishment. civil authorities used torture means of actual punishment guilty, or means of gaining forensic information criminals.[citation needed] , unlike inquisition forbade torture of women sexual overtones. however, of torture methods inquisition used same; exception being used in germany , low countries other devices used.


http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inquisition
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/auto-da-f%c3%a9

tell me honestly.

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