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2006-07-30 15:23:30 · 15 answers · asked by Mahfuz R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
answer to Brother Michael:
My advice... is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire.."
Martin Luther ("On the Jews and their lies" 1543)
1517: Martin Luther posts 95 theses at Wittenberg. The Reformation will turn Europe into a battleground.
1517 A Dominican monk Johann Tetzel swells papal coffers by selling indulgences ('souls freed from purgatory'!)
1524: Luther – no friend of the downtrodden – encourages savagery of German princes in putting down the two-year Peasants’ Revolt.
2006-07-30 15:39:40 · update #1
Book Burners for Christ–
Dominican monks in the service of Ferdinand proudly consign the wisdom of Moorish Spain to the flames (Berruguete, Prado Museum, Madrid)
1553 John Calvin, the "Protestant Pope" of Geneva proves his Christian credentials by having Michael Servetus, the Spanish physician, burned at the stake for heresy. Servetus had opposed Trinitarianism and infant baptism.
Servetus, the discoverer of pulmonary blood circulation (an advance on Galen) had fled the Inquisition and had thought himself safe among Protestants. Oh dear.
1559 Introduction of Index of Forbidden Books (lasts until 1966)
1563 Following the Council of Trent, Jesuit Order becomes 'Defender of the Faith'. Huguenots are persecuted in France.
2006-07-30 15:39:51 · update #2
You don't know how arrogant your question makes you sound.
Religion is nothing more than a moral crutch.
Wake up and live your own life.
2006-07-30 15:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and if you could provide manuscript documentation for this claim, I would be interested. Please, nothing about the inquisition or witch trials, those were Catholic things. Please do not include all Christians in the Catholic church.
I should have made it clearer that I was asking for manuscript evidence from the apostles or early church fathers. What Luther did or said, or Calvin, does not matter, they were fallible men who were wrong about there attitudes toward the Jews. But to condemn the entire of Christendom on a few men who spoke wrongly or out of ignorance, is misguided at best. I will not comment on your mention of Catholics, since I am not one.
2006-07-30 22:31:14 · answer #2 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 22:36-40...Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Oh yeah, I can really see where that says to exterminate our adversaries!
Proverbs 1:17 - Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird;
Let me tell you pal, we Christians can see the net of propaganda you are spreading and surely you spread it in vain...too bad you do not turn all that negative energy into some thing more productive! Of course, you are so "hell bent" on denouncing Gods people perhaps you are Satanic in nature. If you didn't believe in Christ and Christianity you would not be so opposed to it because you would not have anything to be opposed to - hmmm, wonder about that!
2006-07-30 22:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by Greymane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it wasn't. Christianity never exterminated any adversaries, because that is not what Christianity is about - unless you mean the following adversaries:
- Death
- Sin
- The Devil and his fallen angels (otherwise know as demons)
And by the way, these adversaries were not defeated by Christianity. They were defeated by Christ.
2006-07-30 22:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by LDRship 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's replete in history. Every religion does it. Muslims have just perfected the technique is all.
2006-07-30 22:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was Catholicism, not true Christianity. Jesus didn't tell us to go to war to spread the gospel. Catholicism started it.
2006-07-30 22:27:05 · answer #6 · answered by indiebaptist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh ... no.
May I suggest that you get your information from sites other than ones containing anti-religious propaganda?
2006-07-30 22:28:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is alive and well and living and one day you will see the truth and I pray it isn't too late.......ignorance wont save you
2006-07-30 22:28:19 · answer #8 · answered by shiningon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey Mahfuz, still putting out this quack! Jesus never killed anybody!But he did raise a few from the dead!!!!!!
2006-07-30 22:28:45 · answer #9 · answered by bungyow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some might say that but there is alot that we today don't know about the past
2006-07-30 22:27:04 · answer #10 · answered by mørbidsшεεŧnεss 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋