Why don't Catholics read Foxe's Book of Martyrs if they want to find out about the brutality of the RC church?

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Answer 1

Foxe's Book of Martyrs attempts to link the selfless witness of the true faith made by the early martyrs of the Catholic Church, with the prosecutions of the late day heretics, who were the sworn enemies of that very same Church.

In this, it is both dishonest and inaccurate.

There can be no real comparison between the early martyrs, who gave their lives for the truth, versus those who came much later, after the world had already been converted to Christ, and who did nothing but oppose the same truths that were already paid for by the blood of Christ, and that of the authentic and holy martyrs.

Foxe's uses the true accounts of the early martyrs in an attempt to legitimize the actions of later heretics who did nothing but attempt to destroy the true church of God.

As such, Foxe's is no more than a propaganda piece, and a favorite of those who feel the need to justify their break from the Catholic church, when no such justification is ever possible.

The martyrs of the early church died because they were true Christians. They refused to renounce their faith, even in the face of the most horrible persecutions, and the whole world was eventually converted to Christ, as a result.

The "martyrs" of the later days, which Foxe's laments in such detail, were heretics, radicals, and anarchists, who did nothing but attempt to tear down everything the early martyrs had already paid for and confirmed, with their own blood.

RC brutality? What about the brutality of rampant and unrepentant heretics leading uncounted millions of souls to an eternity in hell?

You are welcome, too

Answer 2

O man, the book you want me to read is a biased book. I just checked with Wiki and this is what it says about John Foxe's book:
1. It is an "apocalyptically oriented English Protestant account."
2. "Foxe's intention was to attack the Roman Catholic Church... and to establish a historical justification for the foundation of the Catholic Church of England."
Need I say more? Wiki is a non-denominational and unbiased source. You expect people like me to believe you?
May the Lord's peace be with you!

Answer 3

Mike: I have read this book and I am not Catholic. History shows that Protestants did their share of Marytrings too. Plainly put; there was a lot of bad theology out there and coupled with dysfunctional religion, you have people killing people in the name of God, assuming that they were doing that very God, a service !
Isn't the whole picture here, so incongruous considering that the Holy Bible stated: "be a wise as serpents and harmless as doves" - as was the Apostle Paul's charge to Christians !!!

Answer 4

Any book of truth is more than likely condemned or deemed as heretical. Of personal opinion to me, the Book of Martyrs is something every mature Christian should read to realize that our walk with Christ has more criteria than trying to attain prosperity to material gain, but to seek a far greater hope of Glory that can't be shaken by natural things.

Answer 5

All religions practice brutality...I point your attention to the Crusades, 100 years war, War of the Roses, and the genocide practiced on indigenous people in the United States, South Pacific, - the Christian religion in the slave trade, India, Caribbean....

More wars have been fought in the name of a god than any other cause.

Answer 6

Remember that Catholics are followers of a religion and they are not allowed to think for themselves.><>

Answer 7

Catholics are full of pagan traditions.