Who is seriously going to argue that Martin Luther wasn’t a real Christian? He even has a whole sect named after him. Or that the popes who revelled in the Inquisition weren’t ‘real Christians’. Or that the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Tomas de Torquemada, was not a real Christian. He was such a real Christian that he sent 10 220 people to the stake and 97 371 to the galleys for various forms of heresy. You can’t get any more real than that. … They never tortured a heretic more than once – they merely suspended the process a few hours and then continued the same torture. But don’t think for a moment they were not motivated by anything other than Christian love. The torture instruments were regularly sprinkled with holy water.

From Terry Lane “God: The Interview” (ABC; Sydney:1993) pp99-101