All men are sons of God, including you Ashendant (women included).
Also, the inquisition is far more complex than all that. For one thing the inquisition rarely killed people, in relation to Nazism. What happened in the Spanish Inquisition (the most notorious of all, which the Vatican forced the kings to stop) was that earlier there had been a decree that all non-Christians be expelled from Spain. They did this mostly for stability reasons. They used religion as propaganda when it was helpful, the primary goal was to stabalize Spain by getting rid of Muslims and Jews. The only Muslims and Jews that were allowed to stay were those who said they converted to Catholicism. Naturally, many of these said they converted when in fact they just said that so they could stay and run the family business. The Kings suspected this and so they began the Spanish Inquisition whose goal was to make sure that these supposed Catholics were true blue Catholics. They did things like make you eat pork etc. If you wouldn't they burned you at the stake for apostasy. It was an evil thing to do but it was in large part motivated by political reasons, not religious. As a matter of fact, the only valid reason to burn someone at the stake according to the Church was in defense of the secular realm. So kings would argue that they were killing these people to eliminate instability which in truth often escalated into massacres both by heretics and by orthodox against heretics. There are many examples of whole Medieval villages being taken over by crazy heretics who went about rapeing any woman and massacreing anyone who got in the way. Obviosuly this would cost the crown a lot of money, leading to the kings doing everything in their power to create stability. Unfortunately at the time they were convinced by bad but valid arguements that religious tolerance created instability. Thank God for John Locke (a good Christian) for seeing that that was an illigitimate arguement and effectively ending such barbaric practices. So the Church only ever allowed for such behavior, as the inquisition, when it was done to protect the secular realm, something akin to the Just War doctrine would be used in this instance. (approx. 1080-300 people were killed over the course of approx 400 years). Also, the majority of people were not killed, but freed.
And witch hunts were the result of ignorance as well. How can the Church condemn the killing of people who sacrificed babies to Satan and went around causing evil? Of course, chances are these were just ordinary women who got a bad rap for some peculararity about them, but how is the Church supposed to know that? We are talking about pre-modern times, ignorance was rampid as a result of bad technology and poor anaysis. But guess what!!! When modern times gave to us the beauty of technology and modern analysis the Church has condemned the killing of innocent people. The point of this is that the Church alwyas and everywhere condemns the killing of life apart from necessity, and even then it is considered permissible and not the best route. And necessity is contrained by many moral issues, a good example of moral constraints places upon necessary killings is the Christian Just War Theory.
Also, the inquisition is far more complex than all that. For one thing the inquisition rarely killed people, in relation to Nazism. What happened in the Spanish Inquisition (the most notorious of all, which the Vatican forced the kings to stop) was that earlier there had been a decree that all non-Christians be expelled from Spain. They did this mostly for stability reasons. They used religion as propaganda when it was helpful, the primary goal was to stabalize Spain by getting rid of Muslims and Jews. The only Muslims and Jews that were allowed to stay were those who said they converted to Catholicism. Naturally, many of these said they converted when in fact they just said that so they could stay and run the family business. The Kings suspected this and so they began the Spanish Inquisition whose goal was to make sure that these supposed Catholics were true blue Catholics. They did things like make you eat pork etc. If you wouldn't they burned you at the stake for apostasy. It was an evil thing to do but it was in large part motivated by political reasons, not religious. As a matter of fact, the only valid reason to burn someone at the stake according to the Church was in defense of the secular realm. So kings would argue that they were killing these people to eliminate instability which in truth often escalated into massacres both by heretics and by orthodox against heretics. There are many examples of whole Medieval villages being taken over by crazy heretics who went about rapeing any woman and massacreing anyone who got in the way. Obviosuly this would cost the crown a lot of money, leading to the kings doing everything in their power to create stability. Unfortunately at the time they were convinced by bad but valid arguements that religious tolerance created instability. Thank God for John Locke (a good Christian) for seeing that that was an illigitimate arguement and effectively ending such barbaric practices. So the Church only ever allowed for such behavior, as the inquisition, when it was done to protect the secular realm, something akin to the Just War doctrine would be used in this instance. (approx. 1080-300 people were killed over the course of approx 400 years). Also, the majority of people were not killed, but freed.
And witch hunts were the result of ignorance as well. How can the Church condemn the killing of people who sacrificed babies to Satan and went around causing evil? Of course, chances are these were just ordinary women who got a bad rap for some peculararity about them, but how is the Church supposed to know that? We are talking about pre-modern times, ignorance was rampid as a result of bad technology and poor anaysis. But guess what!!! When modern times gave to us the beauty of technology and modern analysis the Church has condemned the killing of innocent people. The point of this is that the Church alwyas and everywhere condemns the killing of life apart from necessity, and even then it is considered permissible and not the best route. And necessity is contrained by many moral issues, a good example of moral constraints places upon necessary killings is the Christian Just War Theory.
