And then burned them alive when they confesed?
im talking about the inqusition of course!
2006-09-23 14:18:10 · 12 answers · asked by The internal demon 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they were hypocrits of course. Nice pic of Gaara.
2006-09-23 14:21:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I recall, the Inquisition was originally supposed to be about education and unifying Christian beliefs. Like any idea with good intentions, it quickly got out of hand when it fell into the grip of opportunists and fanatics. Rule by fear, intimidation, and murder becamse the order of the day, totally justified by selective passages of their Bible and the paranoia of the leaders of the day. This plus the conviction that God was coming soon and that Satan was hiding under every bush and tree added to the frenzy and injustice. The world was a scary place to the superstitious, and the Inquisitors capitalized on that.
I suspect that there are quite a few Christian sects who would eagerly induce another inquisition if given half the chance.
2006-09-23 14:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is Man's oldest, largest stumbling block. We act without completely thinking things through or the future impact our actions may have on everything around them. The inquisition, the Holy Crusades, all of it was Man's way of shooting first and let God sort out the rest. However, BECAUSE it happened, today we can learn a valuable lesson that gave birth to Due Process laws and a system of governing ourselves to prevent such ignorance from happening again. Hopefully...
2006-09-23 14:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why did the religion of peace have 'peace of jesus' days during the crusades, on which one couldn't fight? Because these religions are all about people and people are as good as they are evil.
Have you ever read The Grand Inquisitor? Very nicely done by Dostevsky - a look at how the inquisitor would KNOWINGLY kill Christ at the inquisition.
2006-09-23 14:22:05 · answer #4 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A real provocative answer to that question can be found in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. There is a chapter called The Grand Inquisitor that discusses it very well.
2006-09-23 15:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
over 250,000 heretics were put to the stake by the inquisition alone. Many of these were those who did not give up following Jesus the way the Bible teaches, and not follow him the way the Roman church teaches (and still teaches today)
Tell me, if most heretics were given the right to recant, and be saved, then why did so many deny deliverance ? Why did so many "be thou faithful unto death" as Jesus declared them.
The dark ages were terrible times for the Christian church, the law of God was cast to the ground, and replaced by the pagan traditions of men. "and think to change times and laws" "wear out the saints of the most High" "in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrine the commandments of men" "drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus"
Anyway if you would like to do a Bible study on how God pointed out this power and warned against it, email me at c0d14@hotmail.com
God bless!!
2006-09-23 14:43:07 · answer #6 · answered by Sky_blue 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They weren't "real Christians."
In which case, King James wasn't a "real Christian" nor were many of those who came to the Americas.
Executing non-believers is not unique to Christians. Atheists and non-believers have been the most persecuted and executed group in history, irrespective of religion.
Why do you think so many people fear using the word "atheist?"
2006-09-23 14:23:34 · answer #7 · answered by Left the building 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This was not carried out by Christians in the sense that you are talking about. True Christians are baprized in Jesus' Name, and filled with the Holy Ghost.
SA
2006-09-23 14:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man perverted God's church. You confuse Christianity with religion. Christianity has never done wrong-ever. Man has twisted his form of Christianity into something "religious". Christianity is correct-always, religion is wrong -always.
2006-09-23 14:24:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
And people always seem to forget that, that Christianity has had its fair share of fundamentalists and radical movements over the years.
2006-09-23 14:21:32 · answer #10 · answered by Link 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋