[undotwa]

Originally posted by ebuddy:
=It did so by assigning the dirty deeds to the secular authorities and required them to bring cases before Church leadership for sentencing. Anyone with knowledge of history will tell you the Church was very much behind this injustice.=

The Church itself is forbidden by canon law to proscribe death for anyone, and always has been. But how often she turned a blind eye to what the secular authorites had done! That is not to say that there hasn't been many respectable persons within the Church which criticised the methods of the secular authorities. Even on the Crusades, many condemned the dishonourable actions of the secular authorities in their despicable treatment of Jews and Moslems in the Holy Lands.

In the perspctive of the Church, the office of the inquisition was only there to define what teachings are heretical and convert apostates back to the faith. 'Punishment' should not have technically speaking been apart of the Inquisition. Death was rarely actually the result of an inquisition. For the Church to bestow death (which in fact she couldn't but for the secular authorities to do in her place) would mean admittence of the Church's failure to save a soul. How would that dampen the Church's pride!

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by budster101:
I was just thinking about this topic for the amount of time it deserved. 3-6 seconds, and came to the conclusion that if the Bible were indeed made into a video game, a bunch of the people in this thread bashing it, would then be defending it. Think about that for a few seconds.

You wouldn't happen to be commenting on the maturity of those individuals would you?

Point taken.