Should the church pay retribution to all the people they killed?

Question

should the church be held accountable for every person put on trial and murdered for there beliefs and ideas, should they pay compensation to the decedents alive today ,if these people had of lived there would be no church today, that implies that the only reason the church has survived and brainwashed millions of people is because they silence the ones who would give the world true knowledge, does the church owe there existence to the murder of these innocent victims

Answer 1

why not, i think the pope was the leader of this lynch mob

Answer 2

Those responsible --even if all of them were still alive--
could Never undo the pain & suffering caused,
Nor give back their lives!

However, it isn't only People who've been Betrayed by them ...

Christendom Has Betrayed God & the Bible! :
- UNbiblical Doctrines
- UNgodly Actions
- NOT Christian
http://watchtower.org/library/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm

The End of False Religion Is Near!
- What IS False Religion?
- - Meddles in WAR and POLITICS
- - Spreads FALSE DOCTRINE
- - Tolerates IMMORAL SEX
- How Will It End? ...
- How Will You Be Affected? ...
http://watchtower.org/e/kn37/article_01.htm

Only God can undo all the horrific crimes that have been done by his enemies, in his name.

The Marvelous New World of God's Making
- Righteousness Replaces Wickedness
- Perfect health Restored
- The Dead Return
- A Truly Peaceful World
- Earth Transformed Into a Paradise
- Undoing the Past
http://www.watchtower.org/library/dg/article_10.htm

God's Heavenly Kingdom Government
will more than make up for ALL the suffering mankind has endured!

“The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth”---HOW?
- God's Eternal Purpose for the Earth
- A God Who Has Not Changed
- How to Share in the Promised Inheritance http://www.watchtower.org/e/20041001/article_02.htm

Answer 3

a lot of the people the church killed where other church people, not unbelievers like yourself. I don't think that people are ever responsible for the acts of their ancestors, otherwise we'd all be in debt, including you. We can change ourselves, however, and be more accepting and loving of others. When you accuse the church, you should also separate between man's chruch and God's chruch. God's church dies for its faith, it doens't kill for it. Jesus and all his apostles were killed for their faith. I think your logic is twisted. The reason we are were we are today is becuase of the church, not in spite of it. The freedom you enjoy in america is becuase of the church, the education and many of the inventions. imagine a world where there would have been no church. we might not even have something as simple as a book. It was the need to spread the bible around that caused people to come up with the printing press. I could go on and on with this. Don't write postings like this agian. It makes you look really ignorant, devoid of the true knowledge you claim to have.

Answer 4

God will hold the sins of churches and religions accountable. Just as Jesus Christ said the Jewish religious leaders would pay for the deaths of the prophets, from Abel to to Zechariah at Matthew 23; 35 - 38. So also Babylon the Great is mentioned at REvelation chapter 18. People are warned to get out of her, just like she is a city , cause her wicked deeds will be repaid in full.

Romans 12; 19 also reminds christians to not avenge themselves, but yeild to wrath, for God promises that vengeance is His and he will repay.

Answer 5

"The Church" that you are talking about produced a death toll of about 300,000 people over 20 centuries. The vast majority of those were killed by less than 2% of the Christian population world wide, and over a period spanning just a few centuries. Contrary the modern revisionist, Eurocentric world view, the Roman Catholic Church has never represented the majority of Christians, and the Inquisition never even represented the majority of Roman Catholics.
Your version of history is misinformed.
At the dawn of the Crusades, there were more Christians in Iraq than the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches combined (Greece, Asia Minor, Middle East, Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia). And that's not even counting the other millions of Nestorian Christians in Iran, India and China at the time. Should we hold them accountable for the actions of the European monarchy (who represented less than 15% of the population of Europe)?

Answer 6

No, no more than any government or other religion should. If the ctholic church had done even half what people today claim it had, nobody would have been left alive to record it.

Answer 7

The Churh are not liable. It is the persons involved in the killings that should answer to god. Bush and his cronies cause the lives of his army personnels and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by invading Iraq under the false pretext of WMD. Should America pay for it for Bush's lies?

Answer 8

Yep..They almost roasted Galelio for telling them the earth wasn't flat or wasnt at the center of the universe.

Answer 9

Doesnt make a lot of sense. Any true Christian repents for their sins. Also, I wasnt around back then.

Answer 10

Money can't bring people back. So what would be the point? Who's going to donate the money? You? If you feel so bad about it why don't you give them the money?

Answer 11

Not enough money in the world.