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Originally posted by RACooper
I'm sorry Beryana but that is not what I said - what I said is the Church wouldn't carry out death sentances - they'd judge, sentance, and hand over the condemned; just not actually do the killing themselves... kinda an interesting way to keep their theological hands clean of violating a Commandment huh?
It was all tied into the edicts from the Early Middle Ages prohibiting clergy from taking up arms or taking a life - basically in an effort to A) adhere to/reinforce the spiritual role of and theological teachings of the clergy; B) to firmly establish secular and clerical authorities and realms of power; C) PR issues, it's hard to preach peace and obedience to God when you have cases like Irish monastaries going to war against each other with monks killing/maiming monks just was bad press...
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Can you address the study I posted that distinguished between several thousand killed through churches? I'm actually interested in knowing how they got around it.
Oh and don't correct Beryana or she will accuse you of being anti-Catholic and say that Catholics suffered just as much during the Holocaust.
-Rudey
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