Most of the variants of the creation story begin with an act of disobedience as the beginning of sin. In the Bible, Eve eats an apple from the forbidden tree and they are cast out of Eden. Greek mythology holds that when Prometheus gave the gift of fire to man, the gods were angered and gave Pandora a box, knowing that she would open it and unleash death, sorrow and plague onto mankind. The “fall of man” is a common theme throughout mythology, literature and religion. However, throughout history, obedience has not always been identified with virtue and disobedience has not always been identified with sin. Blind obedience to the church’s authority has led to great suffering and death while disobedience to the church’s dogma has led to some of our greatest scientific breakthroughs. The Spanish Inquisition was an attempt to control the masses by forcing confessions of heresy and demanding obedience to the Catholic Church. The Spanish Inquisition began in 1492 by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I when they issued the Alhambra Decree which ordered all Jews in Spanish owned lands to leave and never come back. Those who chose to remain would be required to convert to Catholicism. Some Jews who remained truly converted to Catholicism. Others converted publicly but continued to practice Judaism privately. These “crypto-Jews” were considered heretics. The church’s definition of heresy was very specific. Freeman states: “A heretic publicly declared his beliefs (based upon what the church considered inaccurate interpretations of the Bible) and refused to denounce them, even after being corrected by the authority. He also tried to teach his beliefs to other people. He had to be doing these things by his own free will, not under the influence of the devil.” Therefore, heresy was openly and publicly disobeying the church. When someone was called out as a heretic by the inquisition, they were forced to confess to the heresy and