To be historically accurate, the catholic church only liked to kill its popes and other churches. It preferred converting regular people over killing them.
When it saw regular people killing each other for whatever reason, it only added a repentance tax.
The Church was… not very coherent 4 centuries ago.
Well, just last week there are people that claim to be Catholic publicly praying for the Pope to die. So I guess it’s still incoherent. But it was much more so 4 centuries ago.
Yes, the Inquisition was created to stop people from killing each other. But there were lots of places where they did the exact opposite of that. Yes, if somebody started a cruzade at that time they would very likely be excomungated, except for the few people that got support instead.
“Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are his.”
For some context, this was reportedly said by the papal legate before the massacre of a few thousand Catholics and Christian Cathars. Not only were they fine killing Christians, but the Catholics with them as well.
To be historically accurate, the catholic church only liked to kill its popes and other churches. It preferred converting regular people over killing them.
When it saw regular people killing each other for whatever reason, it only added a repentance tax.
Too many of the ‘right people’ dying, is bad for religious business. (Make it make sense.)
The Church was… not very coherent 4 centuries ago.
Well, just last week there are people that claim to be Catholic publicly praying for the Pope to die. So I guess it’s still incoherent. But it was much more so 4 centuries ago.
Yes, the Inquisition was created to stop people from killing each other. But there were lots of places where they did the exact opposite of that. Yes, if somebody started a cruzade at that time they would very likely be excomungated, except for the few people that got support instead.
“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.”
“Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are his.”
For some context, this was reportedly said by the papal legate before the massacre of a few thousand Catholics and Christian Cathars. Not only were they fine killing Christians, but the Catholics with them as well.