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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
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Originally posted by Eisenschwarz:
There are many incidences of Christians torturing people,
The Pope and the Catholic Church officially supported torture from the 1200?s to the 1700?s.
It wasn?t until 1816 that pope Pius VII issued a papal bull ending the catholic chrurchs endorsement of torture.
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Right, so, people were tortured as a means of conversion some 800-300 years ago and then the church decided to officially end torture by papal law in 1816. OK. Um, well, hate to break this to you man, but that was "800-300 years ago". Nowadays one would tend not to experience those sorts of conversion methods seeing as "the church decided to officially end torture by papal law in 1816" 'n all. Sorry for being sarcastic, but c'mon now, saying people in 2002 are morally questionable because of the actions of people hundreds of years in the past is simply an invalid course of argument.[/QUOTE]However it proves that the Church has been a _Very_ negative and baneful influence on humanity down through the ages.
Even today, there are many allegations that it collaborated with Mussolini and Hitler.
Not to mention it’s covering up of the endemic paedophile priests, something that happens all the time.
So I would question its morals and ethics even today.
It seems that it hasn’t improved much HTH.