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To: Eleutheria5
"Some may think that the purpose of this article is to blacken the image of Islam. So, in order to elaborate and clarify, let me note that, in the past, Christianity also practiced execution by fire. [This was true] especially in the Middle Ages, when the Inquisition courts burned thousands of Muslims and the Church burned thousands of women for practicing witchcraft,

Christianity differs from Islam in that there are no Christian Haidths and no directives in the Christian Holy Book and no directives in the writings of the Fathers (roughly comparable to the Hadiths) that justify, even tangentially, killing much less killing by atrocious methods.

7 posted on 08/30/2015 4:03:39 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: arthurus

there is an unlimited volume of catholic dogma created by churchmen

the pope’s recent pronouncements are just such officious dogmatic statements


8 posted on 08/30/2015 4:06:52 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: arthurus

Be careful citing ‘facts’ about the Inquisition. Recent research points to 125,000 people tried for some level of heresy or blasphemy with less than 5,000 being executed.


16 posted on 08/30/2015 4:23:06 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: arthurus

Christianity also differs from Islam in that it was capable of reformation which has yet to occur with the evil cult of Islam.


27 posted on 08/30/2015 5:32:53 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: arthurus

“Some may think that the purpose of this article is to blacken the image of Islam. So, in order to elaborate and clarify, let me note that, in the past, Christianity also practiced execution by fire. [This was true] especially in the Middle Ages, when the Inquisition courts burned thousands of Muslims and the Church burned thousands of women for practicing witchcraft,”......................


The church has not executed anyone. Some of the military leaders of Spain did execute some folks during the Inquisition, but I have read that the numbers were not that high and that they have been seriously inflated. Like a more realistic number would be around 500-1000 - far too many, but not in the many thousands. Certainly not like what the Muslims have dome over many centuries.


32 posted on 08/30/2015 7:52:53 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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