Its humorous when people compare the incidents of 2006 to what happened during the spanish inquisitions or Salem. Nobody alive today had anything to do with that and couldn't change any of that if they wanted to. We can effect the outcomes of bad behavior today.
2006-09-01 02:37:48 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Heh, I agree with you. Honestly, it's a little absurd to blame people today for how their belief system was twisted centuries in the past.
I also don't think that many of the folks who throw that stuff into a conversation really even have a good knowledge of what actually did happen during the Crusades / Inquisition and Salem, nor why it happened and what actually did motivate people.
I know I was surprised when I dug a bit deeper into the topics myself.
Ever heard the comment that, when one person in an online argument accuses his opponent of being a Nazi or comparing him to Hitler, it means the accuser has already lost the argument? (It's a running joke on some boards.) I feel the same way about people interjecting comments about the Crusades and/or Salem.
Still, the past is the past, and it's on us to live the way we need to live, to weaken that negative image.
I think the whole topic of "slave reparations" in the United States is similar.
What the landowners did to the Africans was reprehensible; and the descendents of those slaves are economically disadvantaged even today. Yet, my generation -- the ones who would pay the price of any reparation -- had nothing to do with slavery and view it very negatively.
How is the issue resolved? Can the past ever be left alone? I don't know, realistically.
2006-09-01 02:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You find the Spanish Inquisition amusing?
Look to the roots of your religion, Christian. This is what you inherited. Same church. Same faith. Same "God". You'd like to change it, sweep it under the carpet and laugh it off, but the fact is that the Inquisition and Crusades are an integral part of the foundations of Christianity.
The people responsible for the Inquisition, the Crusades, the murderous bloodbaths by early Christianity, are the same people who gave you your Christian bible — who edited it, revised it, footnoted it, deleted books, added on, reinterpreted and deliberately mistranslated it — and yet you swear by it today as the pure unadulterated word of "God".
The only time the Spanish Inquisition was ever "humorous", by the way, is when Monty Python parodied this chapter of Christianity in a sketch. Now that was funny.
2006-09-01 09:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between being mad about something that happened hundreds of years ago and comparing the events of today with events that happened hundreds of years ago. With events that happened hundreds of years ago, we can dissect the event and the outcome and use it as a barometer against what we are going through now. Human nature does not change no matter what else does. Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it.
2006-09-01 09:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by erin7 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I must've missed something. I didn't know people were comparing the spanish inquisitions or Salem to incidents of 2006. They say you learn something new everyday.
2006-09-01 09:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in the time of the Spanish inquisitions did something but no one have interest now its been to long.
2006-09-01 09:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by beacon1mar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Historians and Businessmen/Women.
For knowing of all things happened hundred years ago could be a great business to venture and knowing of what happened of those years could be also a way to correct what had been done mistakenly.
2006-09-01 09:54:30 · answer #6 · answered by ppruel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too many people dude, too many. i agree that it is a reminder of mans inhumanity toward one another but to continually dreg it up is beyond me. I think some people might just want an excuse to be mad at another & will use anything they can. Others have just had this hatred & intolerance instilled in them from a young age & dont have the emotional tools to resolve their issues.
Hmm, bloody hell, makes me wanna buy an island somewhere & live there with me & mine & not bothering with the rest of the world's bullshit, but i suppose people would begrudge me for it. Just cannot win dude! lol
2006-09-01 09:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mrs D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm mad at the Romans for destroying our Temple 2000 years ago! Beat that!
2006-09-01 11:12:43 · answer #8 · answered by ysk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it boils down to the "if you can't remember the past, you will be condemn to repeat it" notion. We should learn from the mistakes of the past to make a better present and future
2006-09-01 09:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by Joe H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it wasd sad and much was bad but as you say it is not our fault and we can not alter the past and yet it seems many keep that in mind as a reason foe anger today
2006-09-01 09:45:48 · answer #10 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋