The Inquisition and The Crusades,biggest Christian mistakes?

Answer 1

Exactly! Those self-righteous hypocrites have damaged the reputation of Christianity more than one could ever imagine. And now we modern Christians have to convince the entire world's population that we're not going to burn people on a stick in they commit sins. It's hard work, I can tell you that. The inquisitors and crusadors completely lost track of what Christianity is all about, which is a loving, forgiving God who spends every second thinking of you and caring about you. So those people really put a few bumbs in the road for us...

Answer 2

I wouldn't call those Christian mistakes. Those particular ones were Catholic mistakes.

How extenstive was the invovlement of say the Russian and Greek orthodox churches?

The biggest mistakes for the Catholic Church was proably not granting Henry VIII an annulment and not appeasing Martin Luther.

Those two events cost the Catholics 50% of the Christian population by 2006 and ended control of nations, thus ending an era of Inqisitions and Cruades.

Two little miscalcuations by the Pope between 1400 and 1560 undid all the work of Constantine between 3 AD and 1600!

By 1600 the fall of the Constantinople/Roman Empire was complete.

Answer 3

no, it cleansed Spain of Muslims after 400 years of infection. the only problem is that the Christians lost Jerusalem to the Muslims
the fool who said that Germany was 97% Christian is inferring that the Holocaust was a Christian thing, when Hitler and his leading clique were either atheists or pagans. the great difference is that the Inquisition and cru\sades were don behalf of the church. The faulty logic about the Holocaust means that any action done in western civilization for the last 1500 is because they are christian, he is a goose

the Inquisition was not pagan but catholic and the current pope was head of it until he became the pope

Answer 4

Every Muslim was driven from Spain, or put to the sword, or forced to convert, whereas the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church remains in Istanbul to this day. Indeed, if comparisons are the issue, Muslims consider Christianity's record to be the darker of the two. Who was it, they ask, who preached the Crusades in the name of the Prince of Peace? Who instituted the inquisition, invented the rack and the stake as instruments of religion, and plunged Europe into its devastating wars of religion? (Huston Smith, The Illustrated World's Religions )

Answer 5

The Inquisition was pagans accusing pagans. The crusades were catholics. No one has the right to ever judge anyone else. They were mistakes no matter who was heading them.

Answer 6

Maybe so. You do realize that people were killing others in the name of Christ even before the Inquisition, and outside of the Inquisition, don't you?

Answer 7

You certainly mention two of the three biggest mistakes. The other would be the outright corruption of the Papacy that led directly to the Protestant Reformation and the break-up of the Western Church.

Answer 8

yes, religion is a set of personal beliefs, i do not think it was ever intended to control the masses, religion is used to keep the population of a country under the influence of a set of state organised controls. the catholic church and its offshoots are in my opinion the biggest corrupt organised crime family on the planet, closely followed by our Islamic brothers, who have recently moved the goalposts for the playing of the game of life, government and church work hand in hand in every country in the world that accepts the freedom of free speech.
east or west, the government controls the church to a lesser or greater degree, you can cite all the constitutional writings of enlightened thinkers, but when the government says jump, the church very rarely says no, in the east it is no different just the circumstances are different. but it boils down to the same thing,
power to control that which can be uncontrollable, free thought, religion is just another tool of the state, they use religion to justify their actions in sending you to fight a war, when in actuality
it is not the religion that we fight against, it is the power that they want,wether it be land,or what lies beneath that land. my thoughts are if somebody in the east is going to drop a bomb or blow up a plane load of children then we had better do something about it before he does it, they think the same. ergo we have a conflict that can not be won, by anybody east or west, we should shut down the churches and the mosques and every other place of worship and go hug a tree, or if the politicians want a war,let them go fight it out, remember this, no can hear you think, unless you open your mouth and speak your thoughts, you can carry your church and belief around with you, for all i care you can beleve that allah,jesus,bhuddha, or john lennon was god, as long as you keep it to yourself, dont tell me what to think. regards LF

Answer 9

i wouldn't call it the biggest mistake.....

the Papacy and royal family did it on purpose. So I wouldn't call it a mistake.

The biggest mistake is letting a Freemason disguise himself as the pope.

Answer 10

not even close... try that they base EVERYTHING on a book of fairytales and horror stories that holds as much water as the Harry Potters - actually Harry Potter contradicts itself quite a bit less.....

I call it the Big-Bang-Mistake... everything else was/are just symptoms.....