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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 165299" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>My dear sister Ishna mundahug</p><p> </p><p>I have realized that you are also confusing <em>heresy </em>with <em>non-believers</em>. </p><p> </p><p>A heretic is not a <em>non-believer</em>. All of the people who died during the Medeival Inquisition were not non-Christians but devout Catholics like myself who had a somewhat different understanding of their faith than corrupt, power-hungry Bishops. And because of this, people like Saint Joan of Arc and Jan Hus were given over to secular authorities and executed. </p><p> </p><p>The way the Catholic Church treats <em>non-Christians</em> has always been very different. For example the Jewish Encycloepedia says of Saint Pope Gregory the Great (590-604): </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em>"...Gregory was very emphatic against enforced baptism, preferring conversions brought about by gentleness and kindness. He protected the rights of the Jews, and assured to them the unhindered celebration of their feasts and the undisturbed possession of their synagogues..."</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>Pope Gregory I (“the Great”) issued the historic decree <em>Sicut Judaeis</em>, “As for the Jews.” He affirmed that the Jews “<strong><em>should have no infringement of their rights … We forbid to vilify the Jews. We allow them to live as Romans and to have full authority over their possessions</em></strong>.” And he was specific in declaring, (1) that the Jews are not to be compelled by force to embrace Christianity, but are only to be baptized of their own free will; (2) that apart from a judicial sentence in a court of law no one is to injure them in life or limb or to take away their property or to interfere with such customary rights as they may have enjoyed in the places where they live; (3) that they are not to be attacked with sticks and stones on occasion of their festival celebrations, nor are they to be compelled to render any feudal services beyond such as are customary; and (4) that their cemeteries in particular are not to violated. <em>Sicut Judaeis</em> was reissued and confirmed by some twenty or thirty subsequent popes during the ensuing 400 years, and is therefore of much more weight in laying down the Church’s view of the duty of toleration, as an abstract principle, than any persecuting edicts evoked by special circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>For example, when anti-semitic mobs tried to attack Jews and prevent them from practising their faith and force them to convert to Christianity, look what decrees the Popes issued: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"...Let no Jew be constrained to receive baptism, and he that will not consent to be baptized, let him not be molested. Let no one unjustly seize their property, disturb their religious feasts, or lay waste their cemeteries..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">- (Pope Innocent III, 1198)</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"...We decree moreover that no Christian shall compel them or any one of their group to come to baptism unwillingly. But if any one of them shall take refuge of his own accord with Christians, because of conviction, then, after his intention will have been manifest, he shall be made a Christian without any intrigue. For, indeed, that person who is known to have come to Christian baptism not freely, but unwillingly, is not believed to posses the Christian faith. Moreover no Christian shall presume to seize, imprison, wound, torture, mutilate, kill or inflict violence on them; furthermore no one shall presume, except by judicial action of the authorities of the country, to change the good customs in the land where they live for the purpose of taking their money or goods from them or from others. In addition, no one shall disturb them in any way during the celebration of their festivals, whether by day or by night, with clubs or stones or anything else. Also no one shall exact any compulsory service of them. We decree furthermore that the testimony of Christians against Jews shall not be valid unless there is among these Christians some Jew who is there for the purpose of offering testimony...We decree in order to stop the wickedness and avarice of bad men, that no one shall dare to devastate or to destroy a cemetery of the Jews or to dig up human bodies for the sake of getting money. Moreover, if any one, after having known the content of this decree, should—which we hope will not happen—attempt audaciously to act contrary to it, then let him suffer punishment in his rank and position, or let him be punished by the penalty of excommunication, unless he makes amends for his boldness by proper recompense..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>- Blessed Pope Gregory X, Decree on the Jews, 1272</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ishna are these the words of the leader of a religion which hates non-believers? Rather the Popes tried to do all they could to protect their non-Christian subjects.</p><p> </p><p>May I recommend some of the giants of Jewish historical scholarship. Israel Abrahams, the great Cambridge University scholar, in his monumental book, <em>Jewish Life in the Middle Ages</em>, is one. Abrahams reported, “It was a tradition with the popes of Rome to protect the Jews who were near at hand.” [SIZE=-2]Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1896, p. 400[/SIZE] Even more important, Cecil Roth held Oxford University’s chair in Jewish history from 1939 to 1964 and served as editor-in-chief of the <em>Encyclopedia Judaica</em>. His histories of Jewish life, particularly <em>The History of the Jews of Italy</em>, <em>History of the Jews in Venice</em>, and <em>The Jews in the Renaissance</em>, are still definitive. Throughout his many writings and lectures, Roth insisted that during times of rampant anti-Semitism the popes in Rome were often the only leaders to raise their voices in defense and support of the Jews. “Of all the dynasties in Europe” Roth observed, “the papacy not only refused to persecute the Jews … but through ages popes were protectors of Jews … The truth is that the popes and the Catholic Church from the earliest days of the Church were never responsible for physical persecution of Jews and only Rome, among the capitals of the world, is free from having been a place of Jewish tragedy. For this we Jews must have gratitude.” [SIZE=-2]Quoted by David Goldstein in Jewish Panorama (Boston: Catholic Campaigners for Christ, 1940) p. 200[/SIZE] </p><p> </p><p>Non-Catholics were not under the authority of the Church or the Inquisition of the Church during these times. In fact they seem to have had more liberty in many ways than we Catholics - who had corrupt Church authorities trying to track us for heresy! </p><p> </p><p>Those Catholics didn't have the benefit of a papal decree to defend them from attack.</p><p> </p><p>And prior to the outbreak of conflicts between Europe and the Islamic east, the Popes' view of Islam was also very cordial: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"...He who enlightens all men coming into this world (John 1.9) has enlightened your mind for this purpose. Almighty God, who wishes that all should be saved and none lost, approves nothing in so much as that after loving Him one should love his fellow man, and that one should not do to others, what one does not want done to oneself. This affection we and you owe to each other in a more peculiar way than to people of other races because <strong>we worship and confess the same God though in diverse forms</strong> and daily praise and adore Him as the creator and ruler of this world. For, in the words of the Apostle, 'He is our peace who hath made both one.' This good action was inspired in your heart by God....This grace granted to you by God is admired and praised by many of the Roman nobility who have learned from us of your benevolence and high qualities [. . .] For God knows that we love you purely for His honour and that we desire your salvation and glory, both in this life and in the life to come. And we pray in our hearts and with our lips that God may lead you to the abode of happiness, to the bosom of the holy patriarch Abraham, after long years of life here on earth..." </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>- Pope St. Gregory VII, Letter XXI to Al-Nasir the Muslim Ruler of Bijaya (Algeria), 1076</em></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A thousand years later another Pope writes: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"...I close my greeting to you with the words of one of my predecessors, Pope Gregory VII who in 1076 wrote to Al-Nasir, the Muslim Ruler of Bijaya, present day Algeria...These words, written almost a thousand years ago, express my feelings to you today as you celebrate ‘Id al-Fitr, the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast. May the Most High God fill us with all His merciful love and peace..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>- Blessed Pope John Paul II, Message to the faithful of Islam at the end of the month of Ramadan, April 3, 1991</em></span> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Not exactly a religious leader who hates non-Christians? The Pope even invokes the family connection between himself and Al-Nasir in Abraham and praises Islam. And he recognises that non-Christians such as Al-Nasir worship the same God God as him in "diverse forms"; are enlightened by the Holy Spirit of God who enlightens all people irrespective of faith; was inspired by God; has grace from God; is praised by all the Catholics of Rome; is seen as a brother in Abraham; is loved "purely"; is wished a long, happy life and eternal happiness. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>You seem to have confused heresy with non-belief?</p><p> </p><p>I would have been at risk from the Inquisition had I lived then, sister Ishna, whereas you wouldn't have been.</p><p> </p><p>As far as I am aware there is also nothing in the Bible about non-believers. In the Old Testament you will find wars between Israel and different Gentile nations, but Jews are not a proselytizing faith and never have been. There is no forced conversions to Judaism, and in the New Testament again there is nothing discriminating against non-Christians. </p><p> </p><p>Absolutely nothing. Rather Jesus tells us to love all even our enemies, feed everyone, clothe everyone, care for everyone the Apostles tell us to pray for all, and live peacebly with all. </p><p> </p><p>That is why the Early Christians cared for the pagans dying of the plague, whereas there own people left them to die! </p><p> </p><p>That is historical fact. The Christian Romans selflessly risked their own lives to look after, feed, care for, console the sick non-Christian Romans while those very same Romans were persecuting them, throwing them in front of lions, denying them their right to practise their faith. </p><p> </p><p>For me that is real love and brotherhood of man regardless of faith.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 165299, member: 17438"] My dear sister Ishna mundahug I have realized that you are also confusing [I]heresy [/I]with [I]non-believers[/I]. A heretic is not a [I]non-believer[/I]. All of the people who died during the Medeival Inquisition were not non-Christians but devout Catholics like myself who had a somewhat different understanding of their faith than corrupt, power-hungry Bishops. And because of this, people like Saint Joan of Arc and Jan Hus were given over to secular authorities and executed. The way the Catholic Church treats [I]non-Christians[/I] has always been very different. For example the Jewish Encycloepedia says of Saint Pope Gregory the Great (590-604): [B][I]"...Gregory was very emphatic against enforced baptism, preferring conversions brought about by gentleness and kindness. He protected the rights of the Jews, and assured to them the unhindered celebration of their feasts and the undisturbed possession of their synagogues..."[/I][/B] Pope Gregory I (“the Great”) issued the historic decree [I]Sicut Judaeis[/I], “As for the Jews.” He affirmed that the Jews “[B][I]should have no infringement of their rights … We forbid to vilify the Jews. We allow them to live as Romans and to have full authority over their possessions[/I][/B].” And he was specific in declaring, (1) that the Jews are not to be compelled by force to embrace Christianity, but are only to be baptized of their own free will; (2) that apart from a judicial sentence in a court of law no one is to injure them in life or limb or to take away their property or to interfere with such customary rights as they may have enjoyed in the places where they live; (3) that they are not to be attacked with sticks and stones on occasion of their festival celebrations, nor are they to be compelled to render any feudal services beyond such as are customary; and (4) that their cemeteries in particular are not to violated. [I]Sicut Judaeis[/I] was reissued and confirmed by some twenty or thirty subsequent popes during the ensuing 400 years, and is therefore of much more weight in laying down the Church’s view of the duty of toleration, as an abstract principle, than any persecuting edicts evoked by special circumstances. For example, when anti-semitic mobs tried to attack Jews and prevent them from practising their faith and force them to convert to Christianity, look what decrees the Popes issued: [SIZE=4]"...Let no Jew be constrained to receive baptism, and he that will not consent to be baptized, let him not be molested. Let no one unjustly seize their property, disturb their religious feasts, or lay waste their cemeteries..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]- (Pope Innocent III, 1198)[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"...We decree moreover that no Christian shall compel them or any one of their group to come to baptism unwillingly. But if any one of them shall take refuge of his own accord with Christians, because of conviction, then, after his intention will have been manifest, he shall be made a Christian without any intrigue. For, indeed, that person who is known to have come to Christian baptism not freely, but unwillingly, is not believed to posses the Christian faith. Moreover no Christian shall presume to seize, imprison, wound, torture, mutilate, kill or inflict violence on them; furthermore no one shall presume, except by judicial action of the authorities of the country, to change the good customs in the land where they live for the purpose of taking their money or goods from them or from others. In addition, no one shall disturb them in any way during the celebration of their festivals, whether by day or by night, with clubs or stones or anything else. Also no one shall exact any compulsory service of them. We decree furthermore that the testimony of Christians against Jews shall not be valid unless there is among these Christians some Jew who is there for the purpose of offering testimony...We decree in order to stop the wickedness and avarice of bad men, that no one shall dare to devastate or to destroy a cemetery of the Jews or to dig up human bodies for the sake of getting money. Moreover, if any one, after having known the content of this decree, should—which we hope will not happen—attempt audaciously to act contrary to it, then let him suffer punishment in his rank and position, or let him be punished by the penalty of excommunication, unless he makes amends for his boldness by proper recompense..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]- Blessed Pope Gregory X, Decree on the Jews, 1272[/B][/SIZE] Ishna are these the words of the leader of a religion which hates non-believers? Rather the Popes tried to do all they could to protect their non-Christian subjects. May I recommend some of the giants of Jewish historical scholarship. Israel Abrahams, the great Cambridge University scholar, in his monumental book, [I]Jewish Life in the Middle Ages[/I], is one. Abrahams reported, “It was a tradition with the popes of Rome to protect the Jews who were near at hand.” [SIZE=-2]Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1896, p. 400[/SIZE] Even more important, Cecil Roth held Oxford University’s chair in Jewish history from 1939 to 1964 and served as editor-in-chief of the [I]Encyclopedia Judaica[/I]. His histories of Jewish life, particularly [I]The History of the Jews of Italy[/I], [I]History of the Jews in Venice[/I], and [I]The Jews in the Renaissance[/I], are still definitive. Throughout his many writings and lectures, Roth insisted that during times of rampant anti-Semitism the popes in Rome were often the only leaders to raise their voices in defense and support of the Jews. “Of all the dynasties in Europe” Roth observed, “the papacy not only refused to persecute the Jews … but through ages popes were protectors of Jews … The truth is that the popes and the Catholic Church from the earliest days of the Church were never responsible for physical persecution of Jews and only Rome, among the capitals of the world, is free from having been a place of Jewish tragedy. For this we Jews must have gratitude.” [SIZE=-2]Quoted by David Goldstein in Jewish Panorama (Boston: Catholic Campaigners for Christ, 1940) p. 200[/SIZE] Non-Catholics were not under the authority of the Church or the Inquisition of the Church during these times. In fact they seem to have had more liberty in many ways than we Catholics - who had corrupt Church authorities trying to track us for heresy! Those Catholics didn't have the benefit of a papal decree to defend them from attack. And prior to the outbreak of conflicts between Europe and the Islamic east, the Popes' view of Islam was also very cordial: [SIZE=4]"...He who enlightens all men coming into this world (John 1.9) has enlightened your mind for this purpose. Almighty God, who wishes that all should be saved and none lost, approves nothing in so much as that after loving Him one should love his fellow man, and that one should not do to others, what one does not want done to oneself. This affection we and you owe to each other in a more peculiar way than to people of other races because [B]we worship and confess the same God though in diverse forms[/B] and daily praise and adore Him as the creator and ruler of this world. For, in the words of the Apostle, 'He is our peace who hath made both one.' This good action was inspired in your heart by God....This grace granted to you by God is admired and praised by many of the Roman nobility who have learned from us of your benevolence and high qualities [. . .] For God knows that we love you purely for His honour and that we desire your salvation and glory, both in this life and in the life to come. And we pray in our hearts and with our lips that God may lead you to the abode of happiness, to the bosom of the holy patriarch Abraham, after long years of life here on earth..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]- Pope St. Gregory VII, Letter XXI to Al-Nasir the Muslim Ruler of Bijaya (Algeria), 1076[/I][/SIZE] A thousand years later another Pope writes: [SIZE=4]"...I close my greeting to you with the words of one of my predecessors, Pope Gregory VII who in 1076 wrote to Al-Nasir, the Muslim Ruler of Bijaya, present day Algeria...These words, written almost a thousand years ago, express my feelings to you today as you celebrate ‘Id al-Fitr, the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast. May the Most High God fill us with all His merciful love and peace..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]- Blessed Pope John Paul II, Message to the faithful of Islam at the end of the month of Ramadan, April 3, 1991[/I][/SIZE] Not exactly a religious leader who hates non-Christians? The Pope even invokes the family connection between himself and Al-Nasir in Abraham and praises Islam. And he recognises that non-Christians such as Al-Nasir worship the same God God as him in "diverse forms"; are enlightened by the Holy Spirit of God who enlightens all people irrespective of faith; was inspired by God; has grace from God; is praised by all the Catholics of Rome; is seen as a brother in Abraham; is loved "purely"; is wished a long, happy life and eternal happiness. You seem to have confused heresy with non-belief? I would have been at risk from the Inquisition had I lived then, sister Ishna, whereas you wouldn't have been. As far as I am aware there is also nothing in the Bible about non-believers. In the Old Testament you will find wars between Israel and different Gentile nations, but Jews are not a proselytizing faith and never have been. There is no forced conversions to Judaism, and in the New Testament again there is nothing discriminating against non-Christians. Absolutely nothing. Rather Jesus tells us to love all even our enemies, feed everyone, clothe everyone, care for everyone the Apostles tell us to pray for all, and live peacebly with all. That is why the Early Christians cared for the pagans dying of the plague, whereas there own people left them to die! That is historical fact. The Christian Romans selflessly risked their own lives to look after, feed, care for, console the sick non-Christian Romans while those very same Romans were persecuting them, throwing them in front of lions, denying them their right to practise their faith. For me that is real love and brotherhood of man regardless of faith. [/QUOTE]
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Prophet Lot And The Painful Reality Today
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