Do you believe The Black Death, or Black Plague was a curse by God?

Answer 1

The irony was the superstitious belief in god and evil, that cats were associated with witches and evil, contributed to the plague. The wholesale extermination of cats contributed to the boom in the rodent population that led to the growth of the disease in that the rats were vectors with their infected fleas.

Answer 2

Of course not. In fact, the superstition of religion only aggravated the problem. Renewed religious fervor and fanaticism bloomed in the wake of Black Death making people look in all the wrong places for the cause and the prevention, resulting in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, Muslims, foreigners, beggars and lepers. Christian mobs attacked Jewish settlements across Europe; by 1351, sixty major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been destroyed, and more than 350 separate massacres had occurred. The Church's clear inability to intercede with God for relief from the plague and the fact that the monasteries, who cared for the sick, were hit so hard caused widespread disillusionment with the Church and the clergy that doubtless tilled the ground for the various protest movements that began thereafter.

Answer 3

No! Poor hiegene made a big contribution. Mans own action create most plagues...why not seek to change that behaviour? I am reminded of the story of a traveller who met the plague while going away from town. The plague said he was there to kill 1000. On his return the traveller asked why so many had died? The plague replied I killed 1000, fear killed the rest.

Answer 4

They did not know what caused it so it spread quickly. God calls us to take charge of the earth and subdue it. However, we are often slow or fail to do so. Take a Tsunami. It only takes minutes once the earth plates cause the Tides. Until we develop better equipment, related it quickly or not allow certain areas to be developed because the are at high risk, we will see more.

Answer 5

I believe the existenc of all sickness and death is part of a curse by God on man. However the Black Death was not necessarily more of a curse - it was just a part of the larger picture. The world's population was reduced by just about a third, I think. Sure slowed down the population explosion!

Answer 6

The Black Plague was spread through an abundance of rats since cats were killed in thinking they were of witchcraft.

Curse of Man................not God.


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Answer 7

We know that it is a function of poor sanitation and crowded living conditions. It is a factor of having society out of control. The fact that things were so out of whack could more easily be seen as the people's rebelliousness from God, and the infliction of misery by man upon man, rather than to any act of God.

Answer 8

If god is the creator then he created the Black Death bacterium or virus.

He designed it and created it on purpose with full knowledge of what it would do. He released it into the world himself. His free will. His mass murder.

I prefer to believe in no god rather than a psychopathic creator god.

Answer 9

Off course it was, not like our idol worshiper* friend said, for many reasons, God creates all, there has to be a punishment for what was happening, and because no a single jew died there. im not sure of more reasons but i like those.

Those who believe in someone, or something, apart of God, or those who believe that someone can oppose to the will of God, those are idol worshipers, coz they believe on fake gods, like the angel that, or the devil, etc.

Answer 10

No. it was about sanitary conditions.

atrtributing any disease to god is dangerous and stupid (look at the tutzes who call AIDS a judgement of godive Americans died from European and African diseases from which they had no immunity. Was that god's judgement? If so, I'll buy a bible to piss on in honor of such a vicous, unworthy being.