Many people critisize the catholic church because it would hand heretics over to the authorites for their false teachings. from there the authorities would often execute heretics by burning at the stake.
I believe that these actions, at the time, were justified because heresy is the cause for the damnation of souls and we execute people for murdering the body but heretics murder thousands of souls with their false teachings. Think about it, which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers.
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Many people critisize the catholic church because it would hand heretics over to the authorites for their false teachings. from there the authorities would often execute heretics by burning at the stake. was the authority. Are you trying to distance them from actually carrying out the brutal executions or something? It's not as if they'd be off the hook for condemning someone to burn but not actually kindling the fire anyway.
I believe that these actions, at the time, were justified because heresy is the cause for the damnation of souls and we execute people for murdering the body but heretics murder thousands of souls with their false teachings. Think about it, which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers.
An excellent summary of medieval philosophy. Would you care to join us in the 21st century, now?
You have still to clarify two points:
Marching Proudly Into The 12th Century.
Hand them over? The catholic church was the authority. Are you trying to distance them from actually carrying out the brutal executions or something? It's not as if they'd be off the hook for condemning someone to burn but not actually kindling the fire anyway.
Technically, largento is correct. The Catholic Church never actually executed anyone, even heretics. The Church was always careful to never have one of its members actually kill, torture, or otherwise commit any act of violence or atrocity on any person. If they needed this done, of course, they forced local authorities (a local baron or count for example) to provide soldiers or other non-clergy men to do the dirty work. Technically the Church clergy could truthfully state that they never physically harmed or killed anyone.
To you, that says a lot about the evils of heresy. To me, it says a lot about the soundness and fairness of the Christian plan for salvation. Thanks for reminding me of one of the reasons for my deconversion.
"Think about it, which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers."But neither you nor anyone else can prove that they were "false teachers and decievers" or that they were leading anyone "astray," so, the Church was simply having people killed for disagreeing with them.
"Think about it, which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers."
"Murdering in the name of God, for fun and profit 101". Johann Huss, Knights Templars, German Jews, Spanish Jews and Moors, Alfred Godwineson. Cesare Borgia's victims, the Cathars, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Muslims(the Crusades), American Indians, and millions of Catholics and non-Catholic Christians(the Thirty Years war) were some(not all) of the victims of Catholic greed, jealousy, and playing in politics. I will defend them against fundies who claim that they are not Christians, but I will not defend their reign of "Holy Terror" in the "Dark Ages" and "Age of Exploration".
Yay! A Catholic Fundie!
Think about it, which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers."
Sophie
the Catholics can't be Holocaust apologisers, as they were killed during it aswell
Really? Then why was Hitler still considered a Catholic in good standing at the end of World War II?
which is worse, for one person to die or for thousands to be led astray into hell because of false teachers and descievers.
Misspellings aside, I can see where he's coming from. It's just a shame he's coming from medieval times.
Could you please listen to yourself for a moment? You kill people for the crime of killing people. Shouldn't the executioner then be executed for killing the body of someone?
Nowadays we have freedom of (and from) religion; there is no recognized single true teaching any more. You have the responsibility to research what teachers and decievers are saying and only believe in the ones with tangible evidence behind them. Only the gullible and un-educated are easily led astray.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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