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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
It doesn't matter. Those people were faithful and claimed to be furthering their faith, and a lot of them were serioius about it.
There was never a Tibetan Inquisition.
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See, this is the kind of point my question was addressing.
How do you know they were "faithful"? People can call themselves Christians but don't live up to those ideals. (There are plenty of threads in GC that shred people for that failure.)
While we're at that one: is it OK to judge an entire religious body based on the (mis) deeds a few? (I can dig up the thread about how I was mistreated by a Jewish community when I was a child if you really want to get into this.)
But since Optimist Prime is alluding to the Spanish Inquisition, I'll ask it again: are you sure they were acting on behalf of the Chruch w/ the Pope's approval? Or were they using the Church as a tool to further their secular agenda of staying in power and keeping their lead over the Moors?
I dont' think your flippant 3-sentence answer is going to solve that one, big guy.
