Why did the catholic church so bitterly persecute those who didn't agree with them (dark ages)???

Question

Was this christian? Is it christlike? Will it happen again?

Answer 1

Being Christian and being Catholic are 2 different things to me. No it was not christian like or christ like... it was evil and cruel. They knew nothing but violence, this is not what God wanted...

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says:Please provide names and dates if you can. I mean seriously people throw this claim out there all the time as matter of fact and never actually investigate their claim. I think you need to do more homework before posting a statement like this which isn't really a question. what does the Church actually teach?

Addition : Good God someone left the door open and some raving Jehovah Witness / anti-catholics have started postings all is lost. The Dark Ages as you call it are not that long in history and what most people are referring to are the Middle Ages or High Middle Age much later. The Dark Ages are named as such for the period of history just after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. It dealt primarily with European culture, politics and economics. If it weren't for the Catholic Church in the West things would have been even worse. Monastics went off into the wilderness and preserved the Christian scriptures. Catholic monks established the hospital system we have today. Later the entire educational system was established by the Catholic Church it has never been science verse religion that is a myth created in our day.

Fact is more persecution of people, culture, ethnicity has occurred in the last century at the hands of secular athetists than all previous centuries combine. I say you need a better history teacher!


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Answer 3

Religious people have always done this and they always will: until religion is stamped out the world over and the human race learns to live with itself. Some won't like this, but from a skeptical standpoint, religion is only about power and control; when it loses control it exerts whatever power it feels necessary to get it back.

Was the Church of Rome being Christlike? No.

Will it happen again? Look around you! The ironically named Discovery Institute is the modern day equivalent. It can't exert physical pressure so it uses other means (commonly called the Wedge strategy) to get its message over. A lot of Americans think evolution was wrong because they would rather listen to easy answers than the hard (and unpleasant) ones. That will never change the fact of evolution and America is becoming a laughing stock of the scientific world because of it. I hope they are proud.

The problem is people like Dubya and Blair use this as a basis for their beliefs and as a reason to go and wage war in another country.

Answer 4

There are several reasons that historians give for the various persecutions perpetrated by the Roman Catholic church over the centuries.

One explanation is that they were ignorant of the whole counsel of God's Word and they were acting on false doctrines that led them to actually commit sin in the cause of defending the church.

Another explanation is that some of the Popes were corrupt men who were obsessed with power and they used the church as a carnal tool to exercise their evil wills here on earth.

I'm not putting down Catholics, their own church histories document Popes who had illegitimate children and who acted in other manners that the Bible condemns.

Answer 5

i'm a pupil of Roman Catholic religious historic previous and that i have never heard of the RCC arresting cartographers and map makers in the course of the darkish a lengthy time period. it truly is now to not say it isn't accessible, yet in my study, I in no way heard that. They did arrest, and attempt for heresy, absolutely everyone they felt became no longer following the given guidelines, and regrettably, that protected many scientists alongside with Sir Issac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, etc, and likely protected some cartographers, yet i don't have self belief they were targeted as a set. The RCC of right this moment is a a lot diverse employer than contained in the darkish/middle a lengthy time period, and could no longer be when compared with it.

Answer 6

Yes horrible mistakes were made in the past by uneducated clergy and Church leaders. It is a miracle the Church has survived. But it has, thanks to the Holy Spirit. Jesus promised Pope St. Peter that the Church would survive. Thank God the Church has learned from its mistakes. The Catholic Church is the most generous Church in the world.
You criticize the Church but what about King Henry VIII and the people he killed as leader of the Anglican Church, including his own wives? The Dark ages are named that for a reason.

Answer 7

the catholic church is not the only church known to have violent eras or persecutions,the catholic church itself under went many persecutions as well. you need to know the history of the period from both sides to understand it better,these actions by no means take away the fact that Jesus founded the church and promised the guidance of the holy spirit and thus is the one true holy and apostolic church. certain figures in the church have acted unchristian like,the church has sinners as does every other church,the church has acknowledged its wrongs and works feverishly to rectify any errors or wrong doings. this site has some good articles you may enjoy

www.catholiceducation.org

Answer 8

I can tell you for a fact this is NOT Christ like or Christian ways. The Bible is very clear about the treatment of people, the Old Testament is harsher than the New Testament but The New Testament was meant to bring in a new law for the people a law of love your neighbor and love God. I believe the Catholics in the Dark Ages didn't know how to get converts without using force, they were wrong in their ways and the way Christianity is going today this won't happen again.

Answer 9

The Catholic church did not tolerate heresy for a long time but that is not limited to the Catholics. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I attacked Catholics and Catholics and Protestants took it in turns through the 17th century. Oliver Cromwell was a particularly nasty Catholic killer.

In the Americas, Protestants flogged and hanged heretics. Quakers were particularly harshly treated. Christians of all stripes are usually intolerant of other sects, you have to go no further than Y!A to see that.

Answer 10

P. Billy, Stop reading your man-made catechism and study the truth about your Catholic Dark history. It's all documented.

Latest, Catholic votes for George W. Bush. 34,000 Iraqis killed in 2006.


Roman Catholics departed from the apostolic faith to follow the late inventions of human traditions.

Answer 11

Greed. Power. Fame ...
They didn't want competition.
So, the last thing they wanted was for anyone to find out that most of their main teachings were not in line with Scripture, infact, in direct opposition to Scripture. This is why they tried to make it impossible for anyone --except themselves-- to have copies of any part of the Bible (telling their 'flocks' that it was 'too difficult' for them to understand & would only confuse them) as the following 3 articles describe in part:

The Bible--Cherished and Suppressed
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/12/1/article_01.htm

The Struggle for a Bible in Modern Greek
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/11/15/article_01.htm

The Story of the Makarios Bible
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1997/12/15/article_01.htm

The title/sub-titles of the following article speak for themselves, in answer to the question,

"Was it Christian / Christlike?":

Christendom Has Betrayed God and the Bible :
- Unbiblical Doctrines
- Ungodly Actions
- Not Christian
http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm

Christ taught the
"The Golden Rule"
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2001/12/1/article_02.htm
How does that compre with the actions of either the church itself, or of Christendom?

Religious Persecution -- Why?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm

"Will it happen again?", you ask .

When did it ever stop? ...

"Sustained Through Terrible Trials"
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1998/6/1/article_01.htm

"They Triumphed Over Persecution" :
- Released, but Not for Long
- Fascism in Hungary
- Prison in Hungary, Labor Camp in Serbia
- Hungary Under Communist Control
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_02.htm

Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/7/8/article_01.htm

Religious Persecution in Georgia--How Much Longer?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2002/1/22/article_01.htm

High Court Upholds True Worship in the Land of Ararat
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/4/1/article_01.htm

A European Court Rights a Wrong
- Imprisoned Against the Law
- In & Out of Prisons
- Widespread Reaction
- Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
- The Injustice Is Corrected
- Religious Freedom Upheld
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980108/article_01.htm

Another question that might well be asked, is whether or not there is someone else Behind all this hatred ... ?
http://watchtower.org/e/20021015/article_01.htm