"All these 'rights of violence' performed on the clergy further contributed to dehumanizing people whose humanity had long ago been denied by anti-clerical discourse

One of the most horrific things about the Spanish Civil War is that the left turned violence against its enemies into a rite. Even as they murdered Christians, they did so with the fervor of religious zealots. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from what happened in Spain. pic.twitter.com/c8nAwCZ2vt

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 3, 2022