What year did Christianity begin burning heretics and abusive things of that nature?
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The Burning Times is the title Pagans have given to the time when hundreds of thousands of people — mostly women — were killed as Witches. The time period began roughly in the thirteenth century, reached its height in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and still occurs in many ways today.\nThis was not one country but started in Europe and also occurred in the US. Not all were burned.  Swimming the witch was one method.  In Salem MA one was pressed to death the rest were hung.\nWitch finder became a profession and went from town to town to finds the witches. No branch of religion was totally responsible but it covered many branches of Christians.\nThese people were victims of greed or fear.  Many were healers, widows, mad a neighbor, had a physical or personality difference from the accuser, or had something someone else wanted.\nFor Christians now to deny that their religion did not do this because it was not my denomination is false.  All Christian faiths have roots in what was before them.
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Nothing. Lent is a pagan observance. Lent was first observed in Assyria and Palestine in the month of June. In Egypt it was the month of May when it was kept. When it finally migrated to Britain this pagan fast was observed in April. It seems to be a most flexible fast suitable for any type of pagan idolatry. For I notice that in 1950 the Roman Lent begins in February! \n\nRome's method of enveloping Babylon's Lent and incorporating it into her ritual should he noticed. About the year 525, Rome, pursuing her usual policy of absorbing the pagan observances and in order to gain nominal adherents to the church, engineered a new religious merger. Under the shrewd management of the Abbot Dionysus the Little, the pagan Lent was established as a church observance. And so the Church, now controlled from Rome, and fast sinking into every form of corruption, added yet this evil of a "sacred fast" to her list of idolatries. In his manipulations to fit a 40-day Lent into the calendar this same Dionysus caused the approximate date of Christ's birth to be changed four years later than the truth. This change of calendar brought in the grossest corruption and rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. It was only the beginning of another form of Roman evil.\n\nLeave Lent alone. It will contaminate you.
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christianity. the info is in the history of the biblical era
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Religion has caused more pain and suffering to humanity than homosexuality ever has or ever will... maybe we should start a campaign to close the churches that instigate hatred and holy wars.
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Fear is right\n\nEarly in their developments the two largest (and most violent/expansionist) religions on earth were competing directly with polytheistic religions.  And by competing I mean subverting, burning and just generally doing nasty things.  In my opinion this is due in large part to the extreme persecution faced by the monotheist movements before they started to come into the majority.  \n\nIn any event the entire concept of multiple deities had to be crushed completely to ensure control.  In both cases deities other than the one "true" god were either vilified or absorbed into the early monotheist movements as something less than what they were.\n\nThe extreme prejudices displayed by members of the two above mentioned religious movements are symptoms of social controls enacted millennia ago by monotheist leaders to ensure the continued control their populace.
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Its not oxymoronic, its hyppocritical and ironic. I think it would be fair to say that the religion that has started the magority of the fights over religion is the Christians.  For example they marched thousands of miles to the "holy land" and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslums and burned infants on crosses and then claimed Jerusalem as their own private property. Take a look at all of the fighting in the Middle East between the Palistinians and the Israelies and tell me how you think that all started. IT WAS THE CHRISTIANS!
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all the holy texts of ancient times have been changed over the years to fit political and social climates of different eras. but, that was man's fault. whether religion existed or not, there was still going to be violence over something. all religion is good until some nutcase takes things too far. its a shame that most ppl cant take the lessons that can be learned from any religion and apply them to their daily lives without going off the deep end and rejecting others that dont agree.
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Early Modern Europe is a big window.  Please Elaborate.  Are you referencing the period after 1500, or before?\n\nIn terms of numbers and percentages, there actually were few cases of witchcraft and few people accused.  The majority of people accused were heretics, and also midwives.  Logically speaking, there are several possibilities.\n\n1.  They were witches.\n2.  They were political enemies of their accusers, or the handlers of their accusers.\n3.  They had wealth, and their death allowed its capture.\n4.  They were ideological opposed to the belief structure, and suffered the fate of all iconoclasts.
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Hi captain, I have got some thing for you which goes down to early history.\n\n" Charles only spared the lives of those Saracens[Muslims] who consented to be baptised, the rest he put to the sword."--[History of Charles the Great and Orlando, by Turpin, Vol-I, ch-ii, pg-5]\n\n"....460 years later, when the Holy land reverted to the Christian rule of crusading knight of Europe, the oriental Christians regretted the tolerating Govt. of the Arabian Khalifs."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....A bloody sacrifies was offered by mistaken votaries to the God of the Christian resistance might provoke, but neither sage nor sex could mollify, thier implacable rage, they indulged themselves 3 days in a promisenous massacre. After 70,000 muslims had been put to the sword and the harmless JEWS had been burned in thier Synogogue, they could still reserve a multitude of captives whom interest or lassitude persauded them to spare."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\nThe critical Gibbon coclusively proves that, "...to his Christian subjects, Mohammad readily granted security of thier persons, the freedom of thier trade, the property of thier goods and the toleration of thier worship. This profitable principle of toleration was observed with more or less strictness, not only by all the immediate successors of the Prophet, but over the whole period of Arabic ascendency."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON] \n\nOn the other hand..........\n\n"....when Jerusalem capitulated to Khalif Omer, the inhabitants of the vanquished city were left in possesion of thier worldly goods, and allowed the freedom of worship. A special quarter of the city was allotted for the residence of Christian population with thier Patriarch and his clergy."--\n[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....And Islam was tolerant not simply to the Jews but also to the Christians. The Christian church in muslim Spain was given large lands and considerable revenues, christian envoys were recieved with courtesy and allowed to take away relics of christian saints and martyrs from the muslim territory. GIBBON says in his Decline and Fall [of Roman Empire], that muslim rulers even transcribed an Arabic version of the canons of the councils of Spain for the use of BISHOPS in the Moorish kingdom. Haroon al-Rashid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights", planted in his kingdom a large number of schools, the head of these schools, his Director of Education, was a chritian named John."--[ The Spirit and Struggle of Islam by Prof. T.L.Vaswani, Ganesh & Co., Madras-1921]\n\nYou can judge it yourself as to whether muslims inflicted more violence or the Christians ? \n\nAnd you know about modern history and who is responsible for killing lacs of people in Hiroshoma and Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..
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They were the Cathars (correct spelling will help you search Wikipedia - I won't do that for you).  They were a heretic sect of Christianiity that became extrremeely popular in southern France.   They  suffered greatly at the hands of the Inquisition, and were finally supprressed brutally in the Albigensian Crusade.
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Constantine officially ended it with Edict of Milan in 313 Ad which legalized Christianity. Though it had become much less common to persecute them before.
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Christianity officially began in 325 AD.  That is when the Roman Emperor Constantine made it legal.
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Since when was the Bible written by Constantine?
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Christianity is the "the devil made me do it" religion.
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No, it was one of many pagan festivals introduced into the perversion of Christianity that was the catholic church. The best guess is that Christ was born around Purim, a festival of the Jews. This ties in with the enrollment/taxation Luke describes.
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One thing you might want to check out about the Wikapedia is that the answers can be edited by users, so I would recommend that if you are looking into a topic that you don't use this encyclopaedia all by itself, because as you can see from this forum, people often disagree on what is "fact". \n\nI think when it comes to the burning, torture and death sentences that had occurred there were several things to consider, as each age had different ideas of what was "wrong". Usually it all came down to the fact that they would kill or torture someone with different views then what the current accepted monarchy approved at the time. If you believed something else, or a different variation of the common belief, you were considered a "heretic" and that was believed to come from Satan, and so, Christian, Pagan, Atheist or whatever, you were "wrong" and needed to be publicly punished so that the rest of the people living around you would be afraid to change their beliefs or even question them. \n\nIn early days, people were not allowed to have their own Bibles, for fear that they would interpret them differently then others. People were told to believe what the church told them, and if you didn't then you could be jailed or killed. So although it is possible that the majority of people burned were Christians, ( because saying you were anything else could get you killed) they were people who differed in their personal beliefs from what the crown and religious leaders shoved down their throats, or were unlucky enough to make an enemy of someone who could accuse them of being a heretic even if they weren't. Claiming to be a good Christian could possibly nullify the charge, so it's not surprising  that reports say that most burned were "Christians".\n\nI've included some more links below if you would like to research this topic some more, but would recomend looking into a local library:
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I really like your questions you get right to the point yeah the only time Christians were persecuted was back in the Roman Empire. Ceasar was the first emperor to kill Christians and then Nero who killed Peter and Paul and set Christians on fire as torches to make light for his chariot races on Vatican Hill. That's basically the only time. In some countries now you have some killings but not major ones. The Jewish people went through a hell of a lot more. Especially with Hitler. I don't know why people whine so much. Everyone believes in something different deal with it you know. Just because you don't think it's right doesn't make it wrong. To them your religion may seem weird. I have studied all the major religions and find them quit interesting. I can see the point that they are coming across with. I think the people who want to be ignorant should go do some research before they open their mouths. GOOD POINT!!!!!you made.\n\n\n\nand Genesis...i think you are the one who has to do some research. I don't know where you got your ideas from but they are not right. Other religions do not kill you for caring around the bible, a few countries do but thats not persecution. Muslims kill other Muslims for converting Christianity. Muslims don't like Christianity for the fact they think the trinity refers to three different people.. they are monotheistic. They don't kill us for caring the bible. As a matter of fact your not even allowed in Mecca, their holy city without being Muslim. DO SOME RESEARCH GESH!!!!!! And Jewish people do not believe in Jesus, they just think he was a jewish guy. And they weren't killed because they believed in the true god. Hitler just didn't like them.\n\n\nFirst of all just because a couple of thousand Christians are killed in other countries doesn't make it persecution we kill thousands of people of different religions with hate groups that are supposedly Christians and they don't call it persecution they call it justification. Now 6 million Jews being killed I classify as persecution. Grow up people\n\nSanta Claus was based on a real person St. Nicholas he had lots of money and used to go around at night and throw money into the houses of poor people. They have just added a few things to it now but it's not a myth it actually happened.