[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.

[xzins]

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

Do you think Jesus would have handled it the same way the extremists did?

Do you think that even the Apostle John, who prophesied the comning of the anti-christic spirit that would deny the reality of the Son's incarnation, would have handled it the same way?