2007-12-29 08:30:00 · 6 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genocide of people who didn't share the same beliefs.
2007-12-29 08:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Enforcement of one religious ideology and thus one group's power by force and instilling fear. Secondarily, it gained a lot of momentum because it lined the coffers of those who perpetrated it. It was also sometimes a means to get rid of political or economic enemies whilst taking their property. When someone was accused they were required to pay for their keep, banquets for the judges (if they had hopes of getting off), wine for the guards, etc... When convicted the remaining wealth and property was confiscated and divided between the church and state.
2007-12-29 16:51:24 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It had to do with the rise of the middle class and the Reformation. People began becoming more secular in their thinking and beliefs as is reflected in the arts of that time. It was also political as church and state were inseperable in most people's minds.
2007-12-29 16:57:28 · answer #3 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was by people who only claimed to know God's will to maintain their power over other people.
Speaking about those who falsely claim to be the church, God says:
Phil 3:17-19
17 Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.
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2 Peter 2:12-3:1
12 But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you. 14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed — an accursed brood! 15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey — a beast without speech — who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity — for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. 20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."
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2007-12-29 16:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by deanr610 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/inquisition.html
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0049.html
In the end, it all boils down to that Man had power and abused the power he had, and to this day, still does
2007-12-29 16:35:32 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To Kill those who threatened your power by presenting truths you didn't want to hear.
2007-12-29 16:34:26 · answer #6 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋