[edsheppa]

To understand the Inquisition we have to remember that the Middle Ages were, well, medieval. We should not expect people in the past to view the world and their place in it the way we do today.

You know, I bet Thomas F. Madden would be among the first to decry moral relativism.

[RobbyS]

This has nothing fo with moral relativism. He goes on to explain that medieval Christians took heresy as seriously we, for instance, take radical Islam.