He says the Dominican solution was not primarily the sword but the pen: identify heretics through interrogation, isolate them, and re-educate them into orthodoxy.
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Interrogation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...they would interrogate everyone. And quite honestly, that worked because in interrogation, you could figure out who the Cathars were."
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Students infer that therapeutic intervention would be uncomfortable for Eve, whether because the therapist sides against the parent or because the session becomes an invasive interrogation.
The Dominican Order and Medieval Inquisition are described as replacing indiscriminate crusade violence with written testimony, interrogation, and identification of specific heretics.
The Inquisition is modeled as a division of clerical judgment over the soul and secular power over the body, with interrogation used to find truth without direct church bloodshed.
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"...they would interrogate everyone. And quite honestly, that worked because in interrogation, you could figure out who the Cathars were."
"These are the inconsistencies in the stories, right? And then once you isolate them. Then you could then re -educate them. And that's the..."
"Well, the therapist would probably side with Eve, and then they would, like, start to, like, call the dad a bad parent or something."
"They're going to interrogate Eve, and that's probably going to make her very uncomfortable."
"the Dominican Order was created, just like the Jesuits, in order to deal with the Cathar heresy. These are extremely well -educated people who..."
"...down. If you're able to take testimony, think of a police interrogation, you know exactly who's lying and who's telling the truth. So they..."
"So in Europe at this time, there are two types of authority. There's something called clerical authority and something called secular authority. Clerical just..."
"Why? Because this world is fake. Who cares, right? I'm fake, you're fake. As long as your soul is pure, that's what matters. So,..."
"And because the Dominicans were educated, they could write everything down. Okay? They could write everything down. And, they were tenacious. They were persistent...."
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