(June 21, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Chuck Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The Catholic Church does not condone killing unless it is in absolute self defense or justifiable war.
The past few popes have spoken vehemently against the death penalty.
And which was it, absolute self defense, or justifiable war, that made it okay for the Catholic Church to try it's very own hand in burning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of witches and heretics when the Catholic Church actually had the power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences?
As to the last few popes, it was very noble of those holy fathers to abhor killing by others a coupLe of hundred years AFTER progress of humanity through the Age of Enlightenment, which the Catholic Church abhorred also, had in most places deprived the Catholic Church of its traditional power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences.
It was never ok for those people to do that. They acted wrongly, and against Catholic doctrine.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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