Christians... a question on the behavior on some of your fellow believers in the past?

Question

How comfertable are you beleiving the whole beleive-in-Jezus/salvation/blabla, knowing that hundreds of millions of people in the past where killed for not taking on the those very beleifs?

Or do most Christians/you blot out those nasty occernces from their religious perspective of the history of the world?

p2of9 LOL!!! oh of course they wherent!! LOL!!

Answer 1

"Y'see, those weren't REAL Christians," will be the canned response -- even though the ones committing those atrocities certainly seemed convinced that they were following the true faith; and the "real" Christians were generally found to be singing the praises of these monsters and identifying themselves with them up until they started doing all that reprehensible stuff....

Answer 2

If you are not a Christian, you do not have the Holy Spirit (The Spirit of Truth) to show you what is correct.

If you seek God and call upon the Name of Jesus Christ and ask him to be Lord of your life you will find the Truth. He died so that you have a way to know God.

In a way you may accept more, look to your supposed intellects, you are so bright and we are so ignorant. Read Foxe's Book or Martyrs. Look at how true Christians stood against the Popes, Roman Catholics, Kings and all others who would twist the Word of God or keep it from normal men. Look at how they died so that the true loving Word of God could go on.

You curse the people who would do anything on earth so that you could come to know Christ because they see value in your life. Christ died for you, we love you if for no other reason than that.

We pray for those who don't know Christ and we try to tell you about his love for you. You do not have to accept Christ or believe in God, many of you see that as reason God can not exist, why didn't God make you love him.

God created you above the angels with free will, he valued you enough to give you the choice of loving him or being separated from him.

You were created as an eternal being and will live forever, you chose how and where you will live out that eternity.

Answer 3

I am a Christian and feel bad for what other Christians may have done. But, I have no control over and no responsibility for other people's actions. Just because another Christian has done something bad or wrong, it does not mean all of us feel the exact same way they did, nor does it condemn all of us. It does not mean that I believe in killing for not taking the beiliefs. I personally do not believe in forcing my religion on other people. All I can do is follow the word to the best of my ability, and try not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Answer 4

uh...uh...another question....for a particular.....group...only.....
can't help it.....must reply with....jibberish....

ah crap, I actually do have an answer for this one. Man it's not as fun when you do have an answer, it's only fun when you don't.

every religion has it's shady past (and present). I don't think there is ANY religion that's not guilty of this. everybody judges everybody at some point, even I though I try to tell people not to judge. If we dislike a particular group on the actions of a few then how do we tolerate? I don't condemn Muslims because a few fanatics decided to power trip, nor do I judge Christians who bomb abortion clinics. because it is NOT the religion or the belief that causes this...it is the human and the action. Condem the person's actions not the creed. I'm agnostic for many reasons, but that doesn't make me dislike the religion or it's followers. What I dislike are those who quote the bible to their convenience, use it as an excuse and who use it to judge others to make themselves feel better as if they are superior.

The whole point of faith is to have it even after the bad stuff. It wouldn't be faith then.

*sidenote to giggly giraffe* very informative! though I'm agnostic, I loved John Paul....he was cool! I even took my grandmother to see him because she was a loyal catholic (her one wish before she died was to see Pope John Paul in person). John Paul was a very educated man! He knew what was up! John Paul, you rock!!

Answer 5

Oh,let me see...That Nero,ceasar, killed hundreds of Christians,jews, Muslims, pagans,Grecian Apollonists, agnostics,etc for the Blood sport in the Coliseum at Rome! then came Attila and Ghenghis khan that slaughtered tens of thousands of non-pagans for the plan of Dominance! By the by one must read all of ancient world History to prevent bias overtaking prejudice!

Answer 6

What people are you refering to? Christians are the ones being persecuted because of a few crazies, like Andrea Yates or Tom Cruise (who, for the record, is Scientologist, NOT Christian!). Society lumps all us of in into a group called "Christians" with a very broad definition. Most individual Christian faiths are not fanatical.

P.S. If you're talking about the Nazis, they were most assuredly NOT CHRISTIANS!!

Answer 7

Hundreds of millions of people were killed for not allowing power to stay where it was. Before Christianity most of the world was either Pagan or Jewish. Christianity upset the disbursement of power. It was less about religion and more about power. Christians are victims who don't want to think for themselves. Any all consuming religion that TELLS people what to believe and how to define God is about power.

Answer 8

Christianity is the most objective and just religion in the world! I would like you to tell me what other religion preaches to pray for your enemy? Don't give a vague answer quote me some text. Christians are just as human as anyone else. All Christians will be judged by Christ for their actions/inactions. (Mt. 7:21-23) SO STOP SPREADING YOUR ANTI-CHRISTIAN HATRED.

Answer 9

What is your historical evidence to back up your claim that "hundreds of millions of people in the past where (sic) killed for not taking on the those (sic) very beliefs"?

This ridiculous "statistic" is the sort of thing that people start believing only because it's repeated often enough. Never mind that it isn't true.

Answer 10

Certainly, people who I did not know in the name of Christianity twisted the religions. However, you may not be aware of Pope John Paul II's (we love you) apologies he made.

Killing certainly will be upon those who killed. I will educate myself, and do all that I can to avoid such sin. However, "Death is a result from Sin" and "Jesus is the salvation from Death". So I will continue to hold onto this with vigar.

I will continue to pray for all souls to go to heaven! Even these Christains who fell short of Christ's expectations ... and pray for the Non-Christians as well (Our Lady of Fatima Prayer).

Here is an overview provided by Wiki:
"Apologies
Over the later parts of his reign, John Paul II made several apologies to various peoples that had been wronged by the Catholic Church through the years. Even before he became the Pope, he was a prominent supporter of initiatives like the Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops from 1965. During his reign as a Pope, he publicly made apologies for over 100 of these wrongdoings, including:

The persecution of the Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei in the trial in 1633 (31 October 1992).
Catholic involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).
The Church Hierarchy's role in burnings at the stake and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation (May 1995, in the Czech Republic).
The injustices committed against women in the name of Christ, the violation of women's rights and for the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman").
Inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust (16 March 1998).
For the execution of Jan Hus in 1415 (18 December 1999 in Prague). When John Paul II visited Prague in 1990s, he requested experts in this matter "to define with greater clarity the position held by Jan Hus among the Church's reformers, and acknowledged that "independently of the theological convictions he defended, Hus cannot be denied integrity in his personal life and commitment to the nation's moral education." It was another step in building a bridge between Catholics and Protestants.
For the sins of Catholics throughout the ages for violating "the rights of ethnic groups and peoples, and [for showing] contempt for their cultures and religious traditions". (12 March 2000, during a public Mass of Pardons).
For the sins of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204. (4 May 2001, to the Patriarch of Constantinople).
For missionary abuses in the past against indigenous peoples of the South Pacific (22 November 2001, via the Internet).
For the massacre of Aztecs and other Mesoamericans by the Spanish in the name of the Church. "