| Did Jesus teach that "heretics" should be burned at the stake? If not, then who did?
Is this action the fruit of love?
Pope Innocent IV officially sanctioned torture as a way of extracting the “truth” from suspects. Prior to that time, this type of extreme punishment was foreign to church tradition and practice. During the Spanish Inquisition alone, some historians estimate that as many as 2,000 people were burned at the stake within one decade after the inquisition began.
What does this tell us about the "Papacy"?
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09-01-2008, 10:08 PM
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