Getting To The Point: What about Christianity and the Cruel Inquisition? How did that happen? Because many persons who dialogue with us here on this website bring up that 'Christians' persecuted one another and burned people at the stake, we want to show why this terrible aberration of so-called 'Christianity' came about. Believe it or not, it was the pagan belief in 'Eternally Burning Hell', the 'Immortal Soul', 'Purgatory' and so on that caused these terrible cruelties to be accepted in the church! NONE of these ideas came from the Bible or the Christianity as taught by Jesus or the Apostles. They came out of Pagan Sun Worship! These false beliefs have been used by Satan to blaspheme the name and blacken the character of our Loving Heavenly Father until people associate the horrible cruelty, that is really Satan's character, with God. It is the idea that God has an eternal hell-torture chamber where poor sinners, even children, who lived only a few years on earth will still be tortured for ever and ever with no relief. This is a terrible LIE! (Please see this for Bible Proof) But for those that believed it, how could it not warp their character and behavior? If they think of their God as one who takes delights in torturing His enemies, why would they not do likewise? Especially since they claimed to be God's very representative on earth! See this from a RCC forum to see my point: "To those watching someone being burned alive, as well as to the person being executed, it is clear that such a death was a vivid depicture of people's beliefs regarding Hell. In Saint Joan of Arc's Trial of Condemnation, Hell is not referred to as "hell" but as the "eternal fire". The same terminology was later used at the Council of Florence, and is also present in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraph #1036). "Does it seem logical that heretics were burned alive, with their mental faculties intact, to give them one last chance to repent before being sent into the "eternal fire"? Could it be that burning an individual at the stake was seen as a merciful death, as a means of giving that person one last chance to save his or her soul before final damnation??? I have read that "burning at the stake was believed by some medieval authorities and scholars to liberate the sinner from his or her formerly damned state and offer some hope of salvation to the now 'cleansed' soul"." Burning at the stake -- a different perspective. Question from Don on 05-13-2002: Here you can see that the beliefs that had come out of paganism, produced the terrible cruelty of the professed 'church' of the dark ages. It was in a climate of forbidding the scriptures to the people, that these ideas festered and grew rank. People would be regaled by horrible stories of hellfire by priests and teachers. If one's 'god' is a monster, how can one rise any higher? Please note, this also applied to those who admire or worship 'wolves' 'dragons' and other savage animals and then talk of 'peace', 'love' and 'kindness'! A wolf may be kind to his pups, but he may eat them also. Wolves are very quick to kill and eat their own kind and most other beasts and birds of prey will do likewise. Remember Jesus sent His followers out as LAMBS among wolves, not WOLVES among lambs!! Professed 'Christians' did indeed torture and kill innocent people for no greater crime than believing and obeying Bible Truth, but this actually proves Christianity to be true as Jesus foretold that exactly that would happen when apostasy came in! John 16:2 "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." Why did it happen? Jesus says it plain, 'Because they did not know me or my Father." God's Word sanctions no such thing! ~~~~~~~ Is 'Nature Worship' and 'Goddess Worship' really as Harmless as is Claimed? What about Native American spirit worship? Were the 'Indians' really so 'in tune' with nature? Were they always so kind and noble? Did their beliefs promote Peace among their tribes? Just a few examples:
Here we see a sacrifice to the sun-god. The prisoner was held down and his chest cut open. His still beating heart was torn out and held up as an offering to the sun-god also depicted as the feathered serpent.
Here is one of the 'chacmol' images, the place where the beating hearts were placed as an offering.
Blood-Sport An example of the kinds of 'spectator blood sports' found in the history of all sun-worshiping Paganism. This almost naked prisoner had to fight 5 different warriors in full battle array, while he had only simple clubs. He was tethered while they were free, the 'eagle' and 'jaguar' warriors had razor-sharp weapons while the prisoner's club was edged with feathers. Not much of a fair chance, but the crowds loved it! We see the same thing in the later sun-worshipping nation of Pagan-Rome, where crowds roared with delight as unarmed Christians were fed to lions, burned as torches, or when gladiators, armed with only a net, fought with fully armed soldiers. |
