2007-01-20 13:51:04 · 13 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He probably tried.
How often is it that people dont listen, or think they are doing Gods work, regardless of how evel it seems to others?
2007-01-27 22:35:46 · answer #1 · answered by sylvia a 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The inquisition was carried out to give the church more power over the masses.
Look at the crusades war= money =power = control, what would Jesus do, dose not figure in to the equation. It has been going on since the church started. Constantine sealed everyone who did not agree on what books should be in the bible in a room, when found the room was full of bones. Terrorism in Christianity.
People who want power and control over others hijack religion, all religion at some point. God just asks us to come any way we can. We need no one to intercede for us. Prayer is taking time to say leed me in the right way. God is not male or female. God just is.
2007-01-28 10:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mehdi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. The Inquisition was actually an attempt by the Catholic Church to stop unjust executions.
Heresy was a capital offense against the state. Rulers of the state, whose authority was believed to come from God, had no patience for heretics. Neither did common people, who saw heretics as dangerous outsiders who would bring down divine wrath.
When someone was accused of heresy in the early Middle Ages, they were brought to the local lord for judgment, just as if they had stolen a pig. It was not to discern whether the accused was really a heretic. The lord needed some basic theological training, very few did. The sad result is that uncounted thousands across Europe were executed by secular authorities without fair trials or a competent judge of the crime.
The Catholic Church's response to this problem was the Inquisition, an attempt to provide fair trials for accused heretics using laws of evidence and presided over by knowledgeable judges.
From the perspective of secular authorities, heretics were traitors to God and the king and therefore deserved death. From the perspective of the Church, however, heretics were lost sheep who had strayed from the flock. As shepherds, the pope and bishops had a duty to bring them back into the fold, just as the Good Shepherd had commanded them. So, while medieval secular leaders were trying to safeguard their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls. The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.
Most people tried for heresy by the Inquisition were either acquitted or had their sentences suspended. Those found guilty of grave error were allowed to confess their sin, do penance, and be restored to the Body of Christ. The underlying assumption of the Inquisition was that, like lost sheep, heretics had simply strayed.
If, however, an inquisitor determined that a particular sheep had purposely left the flock, there was nothing more that could be done. Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and given over to secular authorities. Despite popular myth, the Inquisition did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense, not the Church. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.
Where did this myth come from? After 1530, the Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new heresy of Lutheranism. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it spawned that would give birth to the myth. Innumerable books and pamphlets poured from the printing presses of Protestant countries at war with Spain accusing the Spanish Inquisition of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-21 00:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
John 10:1-5.KJV This tells a parable and seems fitting to answer your question. The sheep are the followers of the Lord and the Sheppard is the Lord.
2007-01-20 22:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would He? The Inquisitions themselves were not wrong; in fact, the Church still conducts inquiries. What used to be called the Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition is now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; its job is "to promote and safeguard the doctrine on the faith and morals throughout the Catholic world." One of the things it investigates is charges of sexual abuse by priests. It is kind of the FBI of faith and morals for the Catholic Church.
2007-01-20 22:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Could be that many of the popes were too busy doing other things to worry about listening to God.
2007-01-20 21:56:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Possibly God was yelling that it was wrong, but the Popes weren't listening.
2007-01-28 17:21:04 · answer #7 · answered by jorst 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the inquisitions were something that men did in the name of God.. and had nothing to do with God Himself. the inqusitions were about money and power
2007-01-20 23:07:31 · answer #8 · answered by yellabanana77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is no God, God is created by man to control man....those who came, used the concept of God to contol mankind
2007-01-28 21:32:38 · answer #9 · answered by Gary M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause they shud have known better if they were following Jesus instead of their power hungry ego trips.
God only spoke to prophets anyway.
No one else is humble enough to handle it.
2007-01-20 22:02:51 · answer #10 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋