Modern Scholarship
- In Betrayal of the Innocents, Timothy Mitchell compares some of Joseph Lewis' work to Spanish anti-religious publishers and writers, who were "conducting a crude defamation campaign" against Christianity and religion as a whole, to show that, during that time period, American freethinkers were not any "more balanced" than the Spanish ones. As examples, Mitchell cites Lewis' Spain, a Land Blighted by Religion, where each and every problem faced by the cities mentioned in the books is blamed on the Catholic Church, and, as an example of Lewis' credibility, quotes him as giving the estimate of the victims of the Spanish Inquisition as totaling to more than 1 million.
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