who really is the heretic?..........?

Question

The grand master of the Nights Templar was burned at the stake for acts of heresy. Was he truly a heretic or was the men who burned him the heretics instead?

Answer 1

The word "heretic" means "one who is able to choose". By this definition the grand master was certainly a heretic. And by this definition also, the men who burned him were not, for they never chose, what they believed was forced into them from infancy

In those times the various church authorities did not allow anyone to choose. The very feeling of the freedom to think for oneself was considered the gravest of crimes, punishible by death in the name of "God".

Answer 2

Neither.

A heretic was someone accused of being a witch. Do you believe "The Grand Master of the Nights Templar" or the men that burned them at the stake were witches? I don`t believe in black magic, however the real heretic here is the governing body that sanctioned these murderous. The Catholic Church in my opinion is the real heretic here because men carried out these horrendous acts in the name of the Church.

Answer 3

Imagine for a second living in those days where your life and liberty depended on men who would take it and dispose of it on a whim.

My answer to your question?- If you apply our laws here and now to the courts of those days, the knights life would have been spared. When did heresy stop being a criminal offense?
Heresy is simply a disagreement to what the powerful say is the truth.

During those days, religions were consolidating power. The labeling of heretics was one of many means to remove opposition of the consolidation and concentration.

Power is something men kill for, and that - remains true to this day.

Answer 4

According to the religious order of the time he was and so were the large majority of the populous in Europe. It had nothing to do with religious belief but everything to do with money. The same desire for wealth and power that sent the Templars to Palestine in the first place.