....in past years (inquisition, slaughtering of natives in the missions, crusades...) by saying that "it all belongs to a distant time and blablabla...
So, is your faith and believes depending on time?
Does it change?
You have to adjust it depending on the historical moment you are living????
2006-12-27 11:36:28 · 13 answers · asked by whoknows 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry to inform you, they were your relatives too.
2006-12-27 11:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by <><><> 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nobody can ever justify true wrongdoing.
At the same time, nobody can ever justify historical revisionism, and making things like the Inquisition appear to be much worse than they really were.
Many non-Christians do this on a regular basis -- not because they're really concerned with injustice, but because part of their anti-religious agenda is to discredit and defame Christianity.
Face it, many of you folks don't really care about what happened with the Inquisition in Spain 500 years ago.
That's just an excuse for you to attack a Church that holds moral teachings that you just don't want to hear -- things which don't mesh with your desired lifestyle.
If you really cared about injustice and slaughter, why aren't you on here railing against Communism? Communism has killed more people -- in just a little over 80 years -- than everything else on this planet put together.
2006-12-27 19:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ideas about religion have adjusted, not the religion itself. I think they have started to settle though. What churches did back then was wrong. That's because a "church" is another word for a group of people who get together to share the same God. The building is just where it takes place, but it's been called church before.
So if the church is people, and no persion is pirfect, then that would explain the horrible things done way back when.
2006-12-27 19:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by Lord_French_Fry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belonging to a church or an organization for that matter brings up the need for loyalty. It becomes a family and its not only in the religions you will find members justifying the wrong doings of their church members. How many times have you heard (or even said) that it is not comfortable walking where there are blacks in the hood or where there are whites in the suburbs, how many times have we judged not to trust people of colors or of other faiths. How many of them tried to make a cover up, denials and or community services as a gesture of asking forgiveness and forgetting. How many of them have you heard they said it is not totally true.
Why are you so stuck with your kind of accusations to the Christians of a thing of the past or generalized a mistake of few? Aren't our police enforcers also trying to protect their images? Aren't the soldiers in Iraq trying to show loyalty to their comrades who committed atrocities against but just cannot help much because the evidences are so overwhelming? Will you easily give away your brother when he commits a crime or in your feeling would you not try to find some ways to make him get away with it if you can? Do you tell the public that it runs in the family? Don't say yes to me because I will surely accuse you of being a hypocrite.
2006-12-27 20:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does faith and believe change depending on time? No... faith and believe change depending on us. Over time, we may have our faith strenghtened and go to another spiritual level with God, or we may have be dissapointed that we just shut off our believes. If we were to look back at history, I would say people of the olden times had a higher level of faith than we do now. Now, we depend on insurance, government, good job, weapons etc for the security of our lives, whereas people in the bible, depended solely on God. But I would say that if this world start to go down bit by bit with more hatred, wars, disasters etc... it's high time to repent, pray and believe in God before it's too late!
2006-12-27 19:48:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jinny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's use an analogy here.
White people were slave owners in the south. Over 100 years ago. If you live in the south, are you to blame for slavery?
White settlers drove the Native Americans off of their land and onto reservations. Does that mean that if you live in America, you are to blame for the atrocities committed by the white settlers?
If you say that you are not to blame for those because they happened long before your time, why would you blame 21st century Christians for the atrocities committed by people many centuries ago?
That's why I have problems with questions that blame today's Christians for the crimes that occurred long before they were born. We today are not responsible for this.
Does my faith depend on the time. No it depends on the Heavenly father who I believe in.
And my answer is still the same. We serve a God who did not authoriize those crimes. They were committed in the Name of Christiany, not by people who understood what it meant to love God and to walk in love.
Those people were power hungry and that is not the majority of Christians.
2006-12-27 19:54:56 · answer #6 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are so right!
The church(es) adjust to their likings and believers are not supposed to ask, just follow the "Lord".....
Makes me wonder...nowadays everything gets checked out, double asked, investigated etc etc etc
Why won't those people wake up and smell the coffee? The time to smell the roses is long time gone.
As long as there are religous oraniziations (just the organizations, not the belief in itself!) out there, people will do what they are told. Outlaw the churches and we will have a lot less wars and terrrorist attacks!
2006-12-27 19:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Times past have nothing to do with my faith in God. What another person did in the past, in the name of God, does not determine how I believe.
I can not change what another person has done, however unfortunate. I should not be held accountable for what another person has done who may not believe the same doctrine as me.
If this was so, you could be held accountable for what your ancestors or forefathers did.
2006-12-27 19:44:02 · answer #8 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If someone is or has done something wrong, its wrong, period.
I don't care if its ten thousand years ago or today. And I do not justify wrongs just because they are done by a church -
For the time being, Humans are whats running those churches, and there is no human who is incapable of doing wrong.
So you need not group all of us christians into this basket of yours, I'm not there.
2006-12-27 19:43:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many times i have heard christians justifying the wrongs done by the church....?
NO you have not.
True Christians continually get blamed for the Atrocities the Vatican CULT perpetrated. A FEW of which are listed above in the condemnation.
TRUE CHRISTIANITY remains stable in belief in Jesus/GOD alone. (Even his mom is not worshipped or consuted!)
2006-12-27 19:42:39 · answer #10 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes so it happened, and what now? It's the past of all of us. Even yourself.
Christians are not justifying they know their past very well and at least they learned from it and stopped war in the name of God.
It would be better to try and stop those who still do it today
2006-12-27 20:52:28 · answer #11 · answered by Sternchen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋