What was the most shameful episode of christian history ?

Answer 1

The Inquisition, easily. Brutally torturing the accused until they not only admit guild but name accomplices... Some of the things they did make the atrocities of Nazi Germany pale in comparison.

Answer 2

The witch hunts and by extension, the holy inquisition. The witch hunts were destined to root out the last pagan structures in medieval Europe and the church managed it very well. By accusing of evilness what was basically druidic knowledge, the church tortured and burned at the stakes thousands of knowlegeable innocents and maintained obscurantism over the land. Many plant remedies disappeared from knowledge because of that. People that were going to the druids for ailments now suffered in the hands of an inexistent god.

Answer 3

The Inquisition. The witch hunts. The Crusades. To name a few.

Answer 4

I personally choose the Spanish Inquisition for many reasons. The biggest one is the fact that the Royal Edict of expulsion or converstion of 1492 issued by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella was not repealed by the Spanish Government until 1968. That was 476 years. The autrosity that modern man could not come to terms with the idea or notion that there were but a few men that put Christ to death, not an entire people and certainly not people that were not even remotely alive during that time is beyond my comprehension. A man or woman may call themselves a Christian or whatever label that you want to put on yourself, but that does not make you Christlike or Godlike. It is your actions, compassion or lack there of that will show what your true man is. A wolf dressed in sheeps clothing is still a wolf.
As a Christian woman, I would remind all Christians, ""Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 7:21)." Jesus also said, "[27] Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
[28] But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." What he meant is that we have but to think evil to have committed it. Also, "[19] Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
[20] Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. I would lovingly suggest to all Christians to go and study Roman's 12:1-21. The question that was asked is a very good one in my opinion, if we can not see the faults of history we are doomed to repeat them and if we can not look and find areas of improvement in ourselves we are either liars or dead.


This explains only the the Jewish expulsion not the expulsion of the Muslims or another group that I forget the name of but it is on the site.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Jews

On March 31, 1492, scarcely three months after the reconquest concluded with the fall of the last Nazari Kingdom of Granada, Ferdinand and Isabella promulgated a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from all their kingdoms. Jewish subjects were given until July 31 of the same year to choose between accepting baptism and leaving the country definitively. Although the decree allowed them to take all their possessions with them, land-holdings, of course, had to be sold, and gold, silver and coined money were forfeit. The reason given to justify this measure was that the proximity of unconverted Jews served as a reminder of their former faith and seduced many conversos into relapsing and returning to the practice of Judaism.


Modern times (1858-)
When Spain got a new Constitution in 1868, Jews were permitted to tread once more upon Spanish soil, but the edict of expulsion was not repealed until 1968.

Answer 5

Moral Relativism.

Answer 6

The Crusades and the Inquisition.

Answer 7

i might might desire to contemplate the Holocaust to be the main shameful episode in all of MANKIND'S historic previous, accompanied heavily by potential of another episode of genocide. there have been many.

Answer 8

The Crusaders

Answer 9

what the Christians did to THE PEOPLE when they discovered and took over Turtle Island ( The United States )

Answer 10

I would have to say, The dark ages, it was that when the church took over that things Got out of hand.

Also the crusades.