Well, I don’t think you want to start bringing up all the attacks from BOTH sides during the wars of religion. Cause there are just as many Protestant attacks as Catholic ones. A sad state of affairs certainly, but both sides can hurl abuse and bring up attacks just as easily as the other one.
“A sad state of affairs certainly, but both sides can hurl abuse and bring up attacks just as easily as the other one.”
well sure...no one can claim innocense!
It was a brutal, violent time.
And what was the rest of europe doing? singing kum-bay-ah?
Were there times that protestants committed “unchristian” acts of violence against each other? against catholics? against others? As I recall there was a heckuva alot of burning and drowning of suspected witches - it continued when they traveled to America.
Meanwhile the orthodox Serbs and catholic Croats were beginning their centuries long bloodshed -while throwing the Turks in to boot.
But what the heck!
Let’s ONLY focus on catholic violence - and then multiply the deaths by what factor?
Did Lancet come up with that figure of 500,000?
Does anyone know if there even were 500,000 Cathars in total?
So in the end what we have is more cherry picking of facts.
There really isn’t an interest here to expore the incident in entirety and search for accuracy, because the point is to bash catholics.
Meanwhile, today in the year 2007 we have a very real threat to our well-being - a common enemy who wishes to kill all of us - catholic, protestant, atheist - you name it.
But no - let’s dig into the past, embellish one side of the story, so we can keep taking digs at each other.
No, that is an absurd statement. Protestants never created an organization within the church to act as storm troopers whose sole mission was to exterminate other religions.
As you know, the church in Rome did just that.
The Reformation was fought with faith and Scripture. The counter-Reformation was fought with blood and deception.