[Who was responsible for the Crusades, and the Salem Witch hunts, and the Spanish Inquisition?]
The Roman Catholic Church.....which is not biblical Christianity
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I'm with you Rock . Why is it that every time they want to pad the numbers, all types are included, but whenever someone brings up something bad done by the church, it's always "Well, they weren't True Christians TM "?
Biblical Christianity?, is there now a Vedic or Koranic one?. And by the way, Salem Witch trials were made by Puritans, you know, a branch of Calvinism.....................Inform yourself better.
Salem is important also because they were Bible literallists, Just like Fundies, who thought they took the truth path, Just like fundies, who burned witches and procecuted any they had disagreement with, Just like fundies would still like to.
The events of Salem (And a couple other settlements which took years to deal with) showed growing America why these people were kicked out of europe and that religion as law maker had to end
You see the Puritan/Congregationalist Church, which actually gave rise to the Baptist Church, was responsible for the Salem Witch Trials, just a FYI.
In fairness, these same people don't think that people within their own denominations are Christians either...
It's the miracle that is "true Christianity"! Only a half dozen people on the planet qualify for it, and who those people are varies with who you are asking (though, surprisinly, the person asked always happens to be a "true Christian". Convenient!)
When all else fails in fundie land, blame it all on the Catholics who are not really christians...blah, blah, blah.
Besides, the Salem Witch Hunts in the United States were carried out by Puritans, who were protestants, you moron.
"The Roman Catholic Church.....which is not biblical Christianity"
Bullshit. If their story is to be believed they are the only legitimate Church and all the rest of you are heathens at best and pagans at worst. Either way, you'll all burn in hellfire for eternity. But Jesus loves you. Remember that.
Catholics follow the Bible and offer biblical justification for each of their practices. The fact that Baptists and other evangelicals don't agree with their interpretation and have come up with their own doesn't mean Catholics don't follow the Bible. In fact, the Catholic Church believes that interpreting the scriptures for one's self is itself a violation of scripture:
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation ¶For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost". (2 Peter 1:20-21)
The Salem Witch Hunts were carried out by the Puritans - the Protestant fundies of their day.
I guess they aren't good on history, since Protestants were responsible for the Salem trials. The fact that Christians can't even agree on who is Biblical Christianity, however, gives a pretty good indication of how contradictory their holy book is.
Hmm, SALEM witch hunts? That was the Puritans, you know, the ones who eventually evolved into Baptists and Born-Agains like yourself?
Protestant christianity is a petulant child rebelling against a lazy, drunk and violent father. Orthodox christianity is his estranged brother.
Christianity. It's like a dysfunctional family.
1 and 3 were definitely the Roman Catholic Church, but the Salem Witch Trials were done by Puritans escaping the Catholic Church.
Why do they know so little about their own religion's history?
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And to be honest were the Crusades and Inquisition really religious? Or did the politicians just use religion to rally the sheep (along the lines of Iraq). I guess that's a question that needs more discussion than a board like this can provide.
Witch hunts on the other hand seemed to have no political reason other than to put women in their place.
Yes, back in the fifth century when the Catholic Church was burning Bible-believing heretics, brave bands of Bible-believing Christians huddled over their KJV Bibles, printed in a language that didn't exist yet on printing presses that hadn't been invented yet.
One could make the point that the Roman Catholic church is not the same as the church presented in The Acts of the Apostles <i>et al</i>, (AKA, literal "biblical Christianity"), but only a bare minimum of modern-day sects of Christianity even come close to that ideal. None of the main ones do, at least.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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