Was the Inquisition a good thing, from a logical perspective?

Question

Good for the church, I mean.

By Logical, I mean excluding your morals and whatnot, just straigtforward: did it help the Church?

Whos saying muslims had no accomplishments? Muslims have done a lot better holding there religion together better than us Christians, even though theres admittadly a large amount of internal struggle between denominations.

Answer 1

It was good for the church ....in the short term.
It was a shameful indecency ...in the long term.

Answer 2

It was the main tool of the Catholic church to keep the faith. Most people don't realize the Inquisition was practiced into the 20th century in Italy. It really didn't end in the 1600's
Effective yes, logical from who's prospective? Not mine.

Answer 3

No but it was designed to be good for the Church...helping it maintain it's power. It failed.
Today we have a new style of inquisition from the church of political correctness. I hope that fails too.

Answer 4

How did the Muslims create such a cosmopolitan society in Spain which sparked the Renaissance ?

Muslims, Jews and Scientists from Europe created a cosmopolitan society of peace and mutual co-existance.

Islamic scholars of Religon (Mullahs,Imams,Ulama) were also scientists since the Quran encouraged the Muslims to look into science to see the power of God.

Muslim and Jewish scholars along with some Heretic Christians or "enlightened" scientists created a "JEWEL" in Europe.

Science, Mathematics,Astronomy, Philosphy etc. were discussed and studied with all three faiths living in harmony and peaceful coexistance.

This islamic attitude to science, mathematics and learning was so foreign in Europe that it was considered heresy and blasphemy.

This got the Catholic Church so UPSET they hunted down all the Muslims/Heritics and converted them by force or killed them.

The Church was so fanatically against free thought and scientific research that they blamed the Renaissance on Islam.

In revenge for undermining the awesome power of the Church (and planting a seed for Europe to emerge out of the Dark Ages) ,the Pope killed or baptised by force all the Muslims (and Jews) in Spain.

Then the Pope and Church along with loyal Kngs started the Crusades to make sure Islam would not reach any further into Europe with their "heretical views".

The Islamic view of One God, no original sin, and the belief that there should be NO Religious hierarchy and NO organized church was a total slap in the face of Christiandom.

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“The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.” (Robert Briffault, The Making Of Mankind)

“The Christian World came to wage crusades against Muslims but eventually knelt before them to gain knowledge. They were spellbound to see that Muslims were owners of a culture that was far superior to their own. The Dark Ages of Europe were illuminated by nothing but the beacon of Muslim Civilization.” (F.J.C Hearushaw, The Science of History.)

“The greatest crimes, the greatest “sin” of Mohammed in the eyes of Christian West is that he did not allow himself to be slaughtered, to be “crucified” by his enemies. He only defended himself, his family and his followers; and finally vanquished his enemies. Mohammed’s success is the Christians’ gall of disappointment… He did not believe in any vicarious sacrifices for the sins of others.” (Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)



Only the atheists have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge these Islamic accomplishments :


http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/cairo-autumn.html


http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/damascus-spring.html


http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/baghdad-summer.html




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Answer 5

From a business perspective, it was effective at the time.
Organized religion seems to parallel organized business.

Answer 6

Just the opposite, it was absolutely horrendous. One cannot compel faith and that's what their objective was. All that it did was fill the churches with lukewarm "Christians" who gave oral assent to the doctrines, but didn't really believe them.

Answer 7

Good for the church.

Not necessarily good for anyone else.

Answer 8

i don't believe it was good for anyone, and i'm not sure what you mean about a logical perspective here. clarify, please. how was it good?

Answer 9

It was foretold by Jesus