How did the Inquisition impact modern Christianity?

>**Related Question** > https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/3547/how-did-the-crusades-impact-modern-christianity - How did the Inquisition impact modern day Christianity own sense of morality and spirituality? - What do these things mean to a person of faith? >The Inquisition, *Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis* (inquiry on heretical perversity), was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy. Inquisition practices were used also on offences against canon law other than heresy. (Wikipedia )