lets talk about the inquisition and all the murders (50 million at least) that the Catholic Church committed.
Why did it do that assuming for the moment that accusation to be true?
Well obviously because those certain groups disagreed with what the church taught.
So now lets do some investigating. (Exodus 32:26-29)
When Moses came down from the mountain to find the golden calf and many worshiping it he commands : "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me... This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.'"
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. And Moses said "You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day."
When Aron and his sister (Moses' sister too) spoke against Moses (Numbers 12:1) the Lord ratified Moses and Miriam developed leprosy instantly.
When Korah a descendant of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram descendants of Reuben, rebelled against the authority of Moses, along with 250 other that they lead in revolt, saying "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?", Moses replied In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.
Lets pick up the story from there: (Num. 16"25-35) 25Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 26He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.” 27So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.
28Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: 29If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the Lord has not sent me. 30But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave,c then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”
31As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart 32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah’s men and all their possessions. 33They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. 34At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
35And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
When the people rebelled again against Moses (Num,21:4-9) 4They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,c to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. "
Now lets examine some other facts and not speculation shall we?
During the period from 150 to 400 the population of the Roman Empire is estimated to have fallen from 65 million to 50 million. Proximate causes of the population decrease include the Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian, and the Crisis of the Third Century. European population probably reached a minimum during the Extreme weather events of 535–536 and the ensuing Plague of Justinian. Some have connected this demographic transition to the Migration Period Pessimum, when there was a decrease in global temperatures which impaired agricultural yields. During the early middle ages, estimates of the total population of Europe is thought to have been between 25 and 30 million. During th high middle ages, the population of Europe is believed to have reached a peak of 70 to 100 million.
During Medieval Times, between the 11th and 13th centuries, whole families lived together in close, cramped quarters, sleeping 10 to a straw pallet on the floor of a cottage whose basement was typically the animal stables. Because of the cold weather, people rarely washed (it was believed to cause sickness) or changed clothes until they rotted off of their bodies. As a result, in addition to the usual smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, measles; and, diseases caused by unsanitary conditions such as polio, hepatitis, and disentary, there was the first outbreak, in 1346, of an entirely new disease--The Bubonic Plague. This deadly disease was spread into Europe by the westward migrations of the Mongols, among whom lived rats--whose fleas carried the bacterium Yerisina pestis. The Bubonic Plague attacked the lymph nodes (known as buboes), causing them to swell and burst beneath the skin. As a result, the afflicted were often covered with black and blue marks, which caused the disease to earn the name "The Black Death." Victims suffered great fever, unquenchable thirst, delirium (they often tore off their clothes and threw themselves into fountains, ponds and streams and between screams, they gulped huge quantities of water) and ultimately died usually within 24 hours! It is estimated that upwards of 60% of Europe's population died off after this first wave of plague. This disease continued to ravage Europe at irregular intervals clear into the 19th century, when Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur arrived at the germ theory of disease transmission.
The population of Europe just as a result of the plague was reduced to approx., 40 million. To suggest the figures of detractors of the catholic Church would mean 120% of the population was murdered (which would include Catholics for the benefit of the obtuse).
Let's look at what historians, both Protestant and Catholic have to say (for reasons of space I'll just provide a link) : http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/protin.htm
www.catholic.com/thisrock/2007/0709tbt.asp
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0007.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0008.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0009.html
www.ewtn.com/library/answers/inquis.htm
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0027.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html
www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/INQUIS2.htm
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0049.html
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0075.html
http://www.trosch.org/for/inquisition.html
Why did it do that assuming for the moment that accusation to be true?
Well obviously because those certain groups disagreed with what the church taught.
So now lets do some investigating. (Exodus 32:26-29)
When Moses came down from the mountain to find the golden calf and many worshiping it he commands : "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me... This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.'"
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. And Moses said "You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day."
When Aron and his sister (Moses' sister too) spoke against Moses (Numbers 12:1) the Lord ratified Moses and Miriam developed leprosy instantly.
When Korah a descendant of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram descendants of Reuben, rebelled against the authority of Moses, along with 250 other that they lead in revolt, saying "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?", Moses replied In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.
Lets pick up the story from there: (Num. 16"25-35) 25Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 26He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.” 27So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.
28Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: 29If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the Lord has not sent me. 30But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave,c then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”
31As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart 32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah’s men and all their possessions. 33They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. 34At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
35And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
When the people rebelled again against Moses (Num,21:4-9) 4They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,c to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. "
Now lets examine some other facts and not speculation shall we?
During the period from 150 to 400 the population of the Roman Empire is estimated to have fallen from 65 million to 50 million. Proximate causes of the population decrease include the Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian, and the Crisis of the Third Century. European population probably reached a minimum during the Extreme weather events of 535–536 and the ensuing Plague of Justinian. Some have connected this demographic transition to the Migration Period Pessimum, when there was a decrease in global temperatures which impaired agricultural yields. During the early middle ages, estimates of the total population of Europe is thought to have been between 25 and 30 million. During th high middle ages, the population of Europe is believed to have reached a peak of 70 to 100 million.
During Medieval Times, between the 11th and 13th centuries, whole families lived together in close, cramped quarters, sleeping 10 to a straw pallet on the floor of a cottage whose basement was typically the animal stables. Because of the cold weather, people rarely washed (it was believed to cause sickness) or changed clothes until they rotted off of their bodies. As a result, in addition to the usual smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, measles; and, diseases caused by unsanitary conditions such as polio, hepatitis, and disentary, there was the first outbreak, in 1346, of an entirely new disease--The Bubonic Plague. This deadly disease was spread into Europe by the westward migrations of the Mongols, among whom lived rats--whose fleas carried the bacterium Yerisina pestis. The Bubonic Plague attacked the lymph nodes (known as buboes), causing them to swell and burst beneath the skin. As a result, the afflicted were often covered with black and blue marks, which caused the disease to earn the name "The Black Death." Victims suffered great fever, unquenchable thirst, delirium (they often tore off their clothes and threw themselves into fountains, ponds and streams and between screams, they gulped huge quantities of water) and ultimately died usually within 24 hours! It is estimated that upwards of 60% of Europe's population died off after this first wave of plague. This disease continued to ravage Europe at irregular intervals clear into the 19th century, when Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur arrived at the germ theory of disease transmission.
The population of Europe just as a result of the plague was reduced to approx., 40 million. To suggest the figures of detractors of the catholic Church would mean 120% of the population was murdered (which would include Catholics for the benefit of the obtuse).
Let's look at what historians, both Protestant and Catholic have to say (for reasons of space I'll just provide a link) : http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/protin.htm
www.catholic.com/thisrock/2007/0709tbt.asp
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0007.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0008.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0009.html
www.ewtn.com/library/answers/inquis.htm
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0027.html
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html
www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/INQUIS2.htm
www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/ap0049.html
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0075.html
http://www.trosch.org/for/inquisition.html
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