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To: Mark Felton

When Christianity was the dominant religion in government and schools and society ... you got the Inquistion. Congratulations.


31 posted on 12/22/2005 7:03:41 PM PST by gcruse
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To: gcruse

You think that upsets him? :)


34 posted on 12/22/2005 7:06:32 PM PST by M203M4 ( MERRY CHRISTMAS)
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To: gcruse

Your history is wrong , Catholicism was responsible for the inquisition, Catholics also delighted in burning those who
read the bible at the stake, that is what happened.


39 posted on 12/22/2005 7:27:18 PM PST by claptrap (optional tag-line under reconsideration)
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To: gcruse
"When Christianity was the dominant religion in government and schools and society ... you got the Inquistion. Congratulations."

I'll be generous and say that that was an absolutely ignorant statement of yours. Clearly you do not know any better, I am sorry to say. You certainly have not read the New testament. The problem is yours, not mine.

The Inquisition was not a Christian act. It was the program of a corrupt and all too powerful Catholic church, not Christistianity. Catholicism of the time was a combination of a personality cult, authoritarian dictatorship, and religion. They used Christ to sell the people on their authority. That is why they did not want the people to read the Bible. The Bible does not authorize the Catholic church to behave the way they did.

There is no chapter or verse of the Bible which tells men to behave like the grand tyrants of the medieval catholic church. They were tyrants first and Christians not at all. They used Christ to acquire and abuse power. Satan knows Bible front to back, and better than you. Satan ruled the old catholic church.

The Catholic church did not behave like Christ and it does not define what it means to be christian.

You insult the founders of this great nation and most American Christians by charging them with the sins of those who violate the teachings of Christ.

Only the New testament defines what it means to be a Christian. No man has authority over my faith. No man tells me what to believe. I follow Christ only and His words as recorded in the gospels. No church governs my faith or that of any Protestant. I am responsible for my own actions and I listen to my own conscience as I read the Bible.

Perhaps you were never educated enough to learn the difference between Catholics and Protestants. Perhaps you never read the New Testament. In that case you are merely ignorant and clueless about the meaning of Christianity.

I am sorry for you.

I am really sorry if the purpose of your remark was intended to be malicious towards Christians. It was inept on all accounts.

BTW: The US Constitution and Bill of Rights were produced by Christians. In particular the BoR exists primarily because of the efforts of US Baptists, in particular, John Leland, who a Baptist preacher who forced Madison to include the BoR in the new Constitution.

You obviously did not know that Baptists were the first of any association of men to promote the sepration of church and State. It has been a tenet of faith for Baptists since 1612 that men should be free from government influence over their faith and that churches should not become involved in government. Why" because they were persecuted by other Christians. AFTER 1776 baptists were still being imprisoned for preaching in states like Virginia. Leland had been jailed a couple of times, and beaten many times.

No atheist ever created a free society.

Only Christians have ever created a free society. (There is a reason for that).

Without Christ you will never be free, and you can never create a free society because you believe men are smarter than God. Without Christ men are tyrants. Christ was not a tyrant.

96 posted on 12/22/2005 9:00:43 PM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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