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No contemporary evangelical Christians used violence and torture as the Catholic Church uses in the dark ages?

This is a fallacy trick question, since the old leader is unfair, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" This type of error is called Plurium Interrogationum, Latin means "many problems" and is a matter of a false, disputed, or a request for granted. For more information on charged issues, see: The Dark Age http://www.fallacyfiles.org/loadques.html + + The "Dark Ages" is a derogatory term from the Middle Ages in Europe used by Protestants to trivialize and demonize the Catholic Church at that time. The term refers to the lack undertaken in the period of learning. In fact, the Middle Ages were not as "dark." The inventions of the Middle Ages == == 551 + cultivation and manufacture of silk was introduced to Europe by two monks 555 + 601 + Invention watermills glass windows for churches and tents + 605 + 706 + 673 church bodies, paper cotton in 1270, 600 linen Gregorian chant, and the magnitude of the 1089 + clocks with music and balance wheels 1199 + stained glass, art footprint figures are + 1306 + 1310 + 1450 Print Compass Watches Here is an article which also deals with learning, literature, medical advances, and the art of the Middle Ages: The Inquisition http://www.catholicapologetics.net/dark_ages.htm + + I guess that "violence and torture" means the Inquisition. Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. The Inquisition was in fact an attempt by the Catholic Church to stop unjust executions. Heresy was a capital crime against the state. The Heads of State, whose authority is supposed to come from God, had no patience for heretics. Neither the common people, who saw hazardous foreign heretics, who brought the wrath of God. When someone has been accused of heresy in the Middle Ages, who were brought to test local lord, as if they had stolen a pig. Not been easy to discern whether the defendant was in fact a heretic. The Lord needs a basic theological training, done very little. The sad result is that thousands and thousands across Europe were executed by secular authorities without trial Fair or judge jurisdiction over the crime. Catholic Church's response to this problem was the Inquisition, an attempt to ensure a fair trial of accused heretics use the laws of evidence and chaired by qualified judges. From the perspective of secular authorities, heretics were traitors to their God and king and therefore deserved the death. From the perspective of the Church, however, heretics were lost sheep who had strayed into the herd. Like the shepherds, the pope and the bishops have a duty put them on top, as the Good Shepherd had commanded them. So, while medieval secular leaders were trying to protect their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls. Inquisition provide a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community. Most people tried for heresy by the Inquisition were acquitted or had their sentences suspended. Those found guilty of serious misconduct have been allowed to confess their sin, repentance, and be returned to the body of Christ. The assumption underlying the Inquisition is that, like lost sheep, heretics had simply lost. However, if an inquisitor determined that a sheep had purposely left particular, the herd, there was nothing they could do. Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and turned over to secular authorities. Despite popular belief, the Inquisition not burn heretics. They are the secular authorities that held heresy a capital offense, not the Church. Only truth is that the medieval Inquisition saved many thousands of innocent (And even not so innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or the law of the mafia. Where does this myth come from? After 1530, the Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new Lutheran heresy. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it emerged that would lead to the myth. Countless books and brochures Protestant printers made by countries at war with Spain, the Spanish Inquisition accused of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World. For more information see: The real inquiry, by Thomas F. Madden, National Review (2004) by Edward http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/madden200406181026.asp Peters, Inquisition (1988) The Spanish Inquisition by Kamen, Henry (1997) The Spanish Inquisition: Fact versus fiction, Marvin R. O'Connell (1996): http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0026. Html + With love in Christ.

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