[Blogger]

Cronos, you are the one who skipped subjects. Just as you have been attempting to switch the subject from “Was the Catholic Church the persecutor of others throughout much of history?” to “Do you agree with this group or that group?” The latter question is completely and totally irrelevant as to whether or not the former happened. Thus, you won’t get an answer for you question because it is not germane to the subject.

[Cronos]

“Was the Catholic Church the persecutor of others throughout much of history?”
Were others also persecuting Catholics and CAtholics persecuting others? YES

And to your thing of "CAtholics were the main persecutors, they and only they are persecutors" -- NO, and history bears that out

you pointed out Donatists. I told you that the orthodox Church did not persecute them, the Roman Emperors did -- do you agree with that or not?

you talked about Montanists. Again, there was no instance of persecution

What are you talking about then? These two examples were wrong (of course they were pre-Middle Ages, so you could be forgiven for raising it)



Finally, Albigensians, Cathars, etc. -- Church authorities persecuted the heretical beliefs, not the believers. If they recanted, they were fine. Was this necessary? I deem it yes for the time as people were led astray when they couldn't read and had no access to identify orthodoxy. You can't project todays or the 1500s on to the 1100s