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To: .45 Long Colt
Don’t blame Christians for the Inquisition. Only heaven knows how many true Christians were slaughtered at the hand of Rome’s Inquisition.

The Catholic and Christian-haters abound here. Anything you say to them is merely fodder for their hatred.
I've always thought it so ODD to "hate" a church, a faith or God. I can only pity those people because of how they were brought up to hate our Creator, His Son and His Church.
The Church HAD/HAS to be manned by humans so error HAS to take place. But to bash the institution so is beyond the pale. They are to be pitied.

81 posted on 01/06/2014 6:29:18 PM PST by cloudmountain (.)
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To: cloudmountain
The Church HAD/HAS to be manned by humans so error HAS to take place. But to bash the institution so is beyond the pale. They are to be pitied.

So who is to be pitied? Those who criticize the Inquisition and the institution which practiced it or those who were tortured to death for speaking out against the error which you admit happened?

You were really on to something in your first post (but each post you have made since then makes me believe that you were totally unaware of the valid point you were making). Paul in Ephesians 6:12 makes it clear that spiritual warfare is with the institutions ("powers and principalities") not primarily with the people deceived ("flesh and blood") by the institutions. Most Muslims (excluding the hardcore jihadists) are not to be hated but pitied as those who are deceived - they are the ones who need the Gospel which Islam is trying to silence. Islam, the institution, is to be recognized and despised as the evil it represents. I have no doubt that there are good Muslim people in the world - at least, as good as one can be without the power of the Holy Spirit, however, it does not logically follow that Christians should be anything other than enemies of Islam.

130 posted on 01/07/2014 9:54:17 AM PST by CommerceComet (No more GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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