inquisition,crusades, abortion clinic bombing, support for genocide etc. Sexual repression?
2007-09-19 11:32:21 · 27 answers · asked by 3 Godz in 1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Inquisition included the persecution of true Christians.
I know of no Christians who believe the crusades were the will of God.
I don't know any Christian who would approve of bombing an abortion clinic.
I don't even have a clue how you imagine any Christian supports genocide.
So I really don't know what you imagine a Christian is.
A Christian to me is a follower of Jesus Christ, and nothing in His teachings remotely support such activities as you list.
2007-09-19 11:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades took place because the Roman Catholic Church translated the Bible into Latin, locked it up behind gates and said, "Thus and thus is what God says." From this we got inquisitions, crusades, indulgences and the like.
When the reformation translated the Bible into German and English, the average person could stand up to the evil popery and say "No!" for the Bible says thus and thus. Then the killing and fleecing soon stopped.
So threatened by this, the Roman Catholic church burned such people at the stake. It is the quest for power and the control over the masses that make men (not Christians) violent and cruel. It has nothing at all to do with Christ.
2007-09-19 18:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
there has been a lot of violence in the name of Christianity- however truly born again believers- do not bomb abortion clinics- they pray that abortion will stop- which actually would have a better effect on abortions becoming fewer- because God answers the prayers of His people- sexual repression? God created sex- but within marriage. Where do Christians' support genocide. Please do not blame all the true Christians for a few who did bad things in His name. thanks!!
2007-09-19 18:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are billions of Christians but not all are humble Christians and the humble one admits his or her sinfulness and weaknesses, if the humble Christian slips up he/she admits it and turns to God for help, they cannot point the finger at anyone else but simply know that but for the grace of God go I.
The humble Christian knows his/her faults only too well and looks to self rather than at others, does the humble Christian fool themselves into thinking they have got God in their back pocket? no, they do not, and yet many other Christians do, they are the ones who damn others to Hell and prevent others from coming to Christ, they like the Pharisee`s are a scandal and a stumbling block.
Are all Christians truly humble? unfortunately not and yet God has high hopes that one day they will be, so a Christian is fallible and given to mistakes and those who are not Christians wait and watch for the least slip-up so they can say;
``See I told you what they are like`` but in the same way some Christians are addicted to judging others who they consider outside the family!
God is pleased mightily by a humble heart and a humble heart is one sure requisite to Heaven.
2007-09-19 18:53:39 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
W-a-r and T-o-r-t-u-r-e
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Anne Coulter, Christian Peace Activist
Conquer,Convert or kill them.
"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.
This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.
The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.
The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.
These “pagans” (Islam and Judaism) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)
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2007-09-19 18:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by wwhy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why were the crusades wrong, again? Didn't the Europeans have the right to counter attack the Muslims who were constantly invading Christian lands, just as the U.S. had the right to invade Afghanistan after 9/11?
Why was it "violent" for the Europeans to defend themselves? Should they have just laid down and died for the Muslim imperialists? If they had, you wouldn't be here right now.
2007-09-19 19:03:19 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
50 million babies have been aborted by Roe vs Wade.
and we're sick?
i'm not Catholic and had nothing to do with the inquisition.
genocide of whom : nazi's????
sexual repression: we have always been against child
rape.
praying isn't violent.
2007-09-19 18:43:46 · answer #7 · answered by Judy E. T 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thinking
2007-09-19 18:51:40 · answer #8 · answered by The Forgotten 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same reasons others are violent: an unyielding belief that theirs is the only point of view, that God only listens to their prayers, and the ignorance to believe that their leaders speak the truth and are not influence by greed or vanity.
2007-09-19 18:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by mediahoney 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just wondering if you are classifying all Christians in this? I can tell you that I am not a violent person.
2007-09-19 18:40:48 · answer #10 · answered by fatima35121 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋