If you don´t, but check them out in, let´s say wikipedia, you might just be surprised...
I´d like to read your thoughts about them.
And please, please don´t tell me they are lies... it´s well documented.
2007-08-24 11:01:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry: A typo: it´s duke of Alba
2007-08-24 11:04:48 · update #1
You´re right James O. All the denominations fell on the Anabaptists. There are also the Cathars to be mentioned but hey, that´s a full plate already.
2007-08-24 11:23:43 · update #2
Sure I have.
Pope John Paul 2 called all Catholics to lament the uses of violence and persecution in the Catholic past.
I am waiting for Protestants and Muslims to do the same
about their histories,especially about the treatment of Irish Catholics and of Catholic minorities in Protestant-dominated places.
How about both Catholics and Protestants apologizing to Anabaptists?
Have you heard of Cromwell and many other Protestant mass killers of "Papists"?
2007-08-24 11:22:07 · answer #1 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm actually working on a book about them. My thoughts are that these men understood that common folk don't have the intellectual preparation to defend themselves from heresy. They also understood they these innocent people had souls which were far more important than their bodies, making the spread of heretical ideas a far more serious a crime against them than even murder. So, they took steps to defend them from the wicked heretics that were attacking them with hellish ideas. For this, I applaud them.
2007-08-24 11:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmm... he wasn't an ancestor to Jessica of Alba, was he?
If so, he should be considered next in line for sainthood.
2007-08-24 11:09:29 · answer #3 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I have. Are you surprised that there are bad people in the world and even in the Church? honey you need to get out a bit more.
2007-08-24 11:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by a 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I view these men as players in political and military arenas, who happened to be Catholic.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make.
2007-08-24 11:24:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a Catholic. I have never heard of these people.
(just answering your question, as requested)
2007-08-24 11:18:01 · answer #6 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody's perfect. That's what grace is all about.
2007-08-24 14:23:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I have.
and your point is?
2007-08-24 12:18:19 · answer #8 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋