[xzins]

[sic]

What's the sic about?

Are you telling us that the numerous æcumenical councils summoned for that precise purpose were not debating the human-divine duality of Christ?

Correct. They were not "debating." They gathered to verify what had already been received throughout the Church: a truth that we know as trinitarian doctrine. That was made necessary by heresy that was denying the unity of the Father and the Son....heresy, I might add, that had been prophesied as being part of the spirit of anti-christ.

[Old Student]

Some of those councils also ordered the execution of persons who disagreed with the decisions of the council. The Pope sent Hungarian Kings dispensations to take their troops into the area we now call the Balkans to eliminate a sect called Bogomils, a variation on the Manichaen heresy. Funny, many of them converted to Islam when the Turks invaded... Maybe because they got a fairer shake from the "AntiChrist" than from their own Church. The history of religion (any religion) is loaded with "fundamentalists" or as I prefer to call them, extremists, exterminating anyone who doesn't agree with them. I'd say Pope John Paul II is a pretty decent sort, but some of his predecessors have been seriously nasty sorts. Even the Buddhists have had some problems with this sort of thing.