Why Christians...burned at the stake?

Question

Wikapedia says that the majority of those burned at the stake were actually christians!
Hello, there were given a chance to denounce they're beliefs and accept jesus or die. How could they have been christians! Where did they get their history backwards? Type in "burning times" and go to bottom.

Also acknowledges witchcraft way back, but says Wicca is less than 100 years old!

Ok, so I get it, Druidism, Shamanism, Paganism, all existed long, long ago but not Wiccan. Humm.....

Answer 1

One thing you might want to check out about the Wikapedia is that the answers can be edited by users, so I would recommend that if you are looking into a topic that you don't use this encyclopaedia all by itself, because as you can see from this forum, people often disagree on what is "fact".

I think when it comes to the burning, torture and death sentences that had occurred there were several things to consider, as each age had different ideas of what was "wrong". Usually it all came down to the fact that they would kill or torture someone with different views then what the current accepted monarchy approved at the time. If you believed something else, or a different variation of the common belief, you were considered a "heretic" and that was believed to come from Satan, and so, Christian, Pagan, Atheist or whatever, you were "wrong" and needed to be publicly punished so that the rest of the people living around you would be afraid to change their beliefs or even question them.

In early days, people were not allowed to have their own Bibles, for fear that they would interpret them differently then others. People were told to believe what the church told them, and if you didn't then you could be jailed or killed. So although it is possible that the majority of people burned were Christians, ( because saying you were anything else could get you killed) they were people who differed in their personal beliefs from what the crown and religious leaders shoved down their throats, or were unlucky enough to make an enemy of someone who could accuse them of being a heretic even if they weren't. Claiming to be a good Christian could possibly nullify the charge, so it's not surprising that reports say that most burned were "Christians".

I've included some more links below if you would like to research this topic some more, but would recomend looking into a local library:

Answer 2

"For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and him impaled." I Corinthians 2:2 (NWT). The Watch Tower paints a perverse picture of Jesus impaled by a stake. An upright phallic symbol that is much older than most of the cross-like imitations of the adversary We see these "impaling" phallic objects to this very day in obelisks, steeples, and maypoles. Of course the Watch Tower has not taught the cross. That would be teaching Jesus redemptive act and people coming to an understanding that that Watch Tower cannot have taught. The Cross is called a cross by early church leaders when writing to each other in their native languages in the first and second century. The impaling stake is one of the Watch Tower "Strongholds" Stronghold are two things. 1. Doctrine that has a strong hold on the follower and 2. A base tenent that the Watch Tower has set. These set deceptions are also so deeply ingrained that followers have a very difficult time seeing past them.

Answer 3

Yeah. Wicca is less than 100 years old. It doesn't bear up to the test of time for being a credible religious affiliation now, does it?

Nobody got their history backwards. People who start panics do so because they are afraid that they will lose control of the things that they hold important in their lives. Like Christians who had some problem with some interpretation of the Bible and developed the notion that anyone who disagreed with them were witches.

There weren't many people burned at the stake in Salem, Massachussetts. Only about fifteen or twenty women were actually burned at the stake. Most of the fear was that the Puritans thought that if there were religious freedom in this country, it would turn its back on Puritanism. So Catholics, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians were a real threat to the Puritans.

It's like what happened about 20 years ago.

Someone named Sally Jessy Raphael came up with the notion that child abuse was under reported. It was. Nobody used to keep statistics on how many children were abused. And sexual abuse was such a taboo that nobody talked about it. So Sally, who had a television talk show, took it upon herself to talk about this subject on her television talk show about five days a week.

People who watched daytime television talk shows started believing her. People started turning in daycare workers, Sunday School teachers and teachers for child abuse, when actually, there was little evidence that any child abuse had taken place. A lot of people went to prison because of child abuse that never happened. Sally's guests on her television talk shows told her (and the rest of America) that 75% of all children are sexually abused by someone in their lifetimes.

As it turns out, the United States Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a study called the NIS or National Incidence Study. It reported that sexual abuse of children is about the same as it was 50 years ago. No more or less child abuse occurrs than it did in the past. But since there was greater and greater concern, started by the myth that Sally Jessy Raphael started, they had to find more and more people to fit the statistics. So child protective workers started going after poor families instead of cutting the funds and justifying the budgets that evidenced that, despite the fact that people do some awful things to children, there isn't really any more child abuse, there is just more poverty and children in America suffer poverty 25% more than any other age group.

So, in effect, somebody named Sally Jessy Raphael started a witch hunt against poor women with children. And a lot of children have gone to jail and a lot of parents have gone to jail simply because they are poor.

So, accept Sally Jessy Raphael or die. How could Sally Jessy Raphael know anything about child protection or child abuse. She is a radio talk show host with a degree in art. Did she get her history backwards?

Answer 4

In Europe, Christians were burned at the stake for refusing to follow Catholic Dogma...during early colonial times, the Congregationalists would burn, draw and quarter, tar and feather etc Quakers and Baptists because of the differences in doctrine. So yes, Christians were also burned at the stake.

Answer 5

They were christians alright. Heretics (ie gnostics, cathars, etc, etc). They burned them alive, and their books. Anyone who did not accept their dogmas was in trouble. It was false Christians burning real ones. But today heretics can believe what we want, and if someone doesn’t like it, f ‘em.

Answer 6

Those who says that they are Christians aren't always doing what bible says and killing is a sin. Christians should check that what they are doing is right and correct.Jesus showed how to live and us should do as he showed. We should also remember that Christians are humans also and every human makes mistakes.

Answer 7

if you're referring to the mess in Salem, it was (wonder of wonders) FOUNDED by Christians. They unfortunatley were afllicted by a fungal infection in the bread they made, which caused hallucinatory behaviour.
source:
the history channel.
and no true Christian would deny Jesus to live anyhow....

Answer 8

i believe the same spirit that was there in the day of christ crucifixion was the same spirit at the witch hunts killing the profits & thoses sent by GOD. once again catholic church im glad i split from them

Answer 9

I would say, you should feel pretty lucky today. :)

Answer 10

i don't know..........