Quote Originally Posted by CassTechGrad View Post
History is full ofleaders who misuse their position of power to benefit themselves. But we areall fallible humans, we all make mistakes even when we have good intentions.Queens and Popes do just that, acting in a way that violates their “oath ofoffice”. They both acted contrary to the Catholic teaching of “love thyneighbor” and “thou shalt not kill”. So the blame is on them, not the church. Had they followedCatholic principals none of crimes would have happened. Church teaching did nottell them to do wrong, they did that on their own.
I wasn't really blaming the church so much as I was blaming religion. Most people think that the worst war Germany was ever in was WWII. Not true! The 1618-48 30 Years War... when Catholics and Protestants bled each other white, killed or starved about 1/2 of the population of what is today Germany.

Many times the executioner and the theologian are one and the same. That goes for all religions in earlier centuries.