Should the catholic church be made to pay for the murders they committed during the inquisition?

Question

Should all christian religions abide by the 10 commandments, if they cannot, then shouldn’t they be closed down as an abomination to humanity? Or what do you suggest?

Pastor Billy: I am very aware of the inquisitions, I wanted to see what others thought about the subject.

Answer 1

Too far in the past, forgive and forget or every crime in the history of man will be dredged up and theres not one religion or people without some blood on their hands. It would never end.

Answer 2

I doubt that any of the people responsible are still alive. In any case, the Inquisitions (in spite of the movies and Chick pamphlets on the subject) were lenient compared to the civil courts of the time, which would hang a man for stealing a chicken. Most people appearing before the Inquisition were let off with a warning or a mild penalty. Also, if anyone were going to "pay", it would be the civil governments of the day which ordered the Inquisitions. The Church was merely the instrument.

Answer 3

What murders that the Church committed during the Inquisition?

If you want to make someone pay for them, you're barking up the wrong tree. Go after the Spanish government -- it was the SECULAR authorities, not the ecclesiastical ones, who were chiefly responsible for the excesses of the Inquisition.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people blame religion for things like this. Don't you guys know that The State -- far more than every other earthly institution put together -- has slaughtered more people than anything?

And much of that slaughtering was done by atheist regimes, such as the USSR and Red China.

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Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Everyone on the planet is responsible for everything they do on an individual basis. And also to some extent in social groups. Man is fallen and where ever you have groups of people you have wrong doing. Even walking past a person dying on the road is wrong even when you don't do anything because you think it may effect their Karma for the next life. Even ignoring people who can no longer feed themselves or get to the shops is wrong. When people have contributed all their lives and Jeremy Kyle participants in MULTI relationships having masses of unwanted children, and they them selves have never worked get anything they like. That's bliddy wrong as well. People die on their own and no one knows and we pay into a social care society who don't give a monkeys dingle. So don't talk to me about the flippin Spanish inquisition. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY.

PLUS WHAT ABOUT THE FLIPPIN CHILD SACRIFICE THAT WAS GOING ON AT THE TIME THAT WAS PUT TO A STOP or aren't we allowed to mention that in relation to the Spanish Inquisition.

A little historical knowledge and you think you can tell the price of butter with a blind fold and tony Blair singing rule Britannia.

Answer 6

the Medieval Inquisition (1184)
the Spanish Inquisition (1478)
the Portuguese Inquisition (1536)
the Roman Inquisition (1542-1800)

I'm sure the survivors and the children of the victims would appreciate a public apology. What's next....we should apologize to monkeys for not sharing the secret of fire with them.

Answer 7

Pastor Billy says: stop using inquisition as a cheap cliche.

Longjohn I have to ask what do you actually know about the Inquisition(s)? For instance you do realise there have been several and there have been Protestant run, Jewish run, Islamic run and secular run inquisition.

Answer 8

What murders? And, what about the 11 invasions of the Papal States between 1500 and 1800 a.d. by the protestants? Who will bring back all those people and replace the goods they stole? Phillip the Orange stabled his horses in the Sistine Chapel after his troops sacked the States, raped and murdered 33,000 nuns, and murdered 11,000 priests. Will you pay? The Spanish throne put those people to death after a secular (criminal) for treason against the throne. Learn the truth.

Answer 9

Okay, so I guess all the evangelical communities which stole money or embezzled funds or misrepresented themselves who functioned under the names of Baptists, Christians and so on should be shut down for breaking the stealing commandments and the adultry commandments?

Answer 10

*Sigh*

It was hundreds of years ago. Tell me, if your 10th great grandfather did something terrible, would you have to "pay" for his mistakes?

We are each accountable for our own actions, NOT the actions of others! ESPECIALLY if we're talking about others who have been dead for hundreds of years.

The Inquisition was wrong, but to assume that those people were doing the work of God....they weren't. They just tried to fool themselves into thinking they were.