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The Spanish Inquisition occurred under the aegis of a church that had strayed so far from Judeo-Christian values that many of the most pious people in Europe wo
by leereeves 8y ago
The Spanish Inquisition occurred under the aegis of a church that had strayed so far from Judeo-Christian values that many of the most pious people in Europe would soon abandon it.
Judeo-Christian values are hard to pin down, but I feel confident that the 15th century Catholic Church did not reflect those values.
- wp381640 8y agoIsn't that just a way of saying Judeo-Christian values are anything good Judeo-Christians have done, but none of the bad stuff?
- leereeves 8y agoIsn't that what "values" means? Things that "good" people do and "bad" people don't. I'm just offering the Reformation as evidence that even people in the 1500s didn't consider the behavior of the Catholic Church at that time "good". Edit: As the responses point out, people don't all agree about values. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
- wp381640 8y agoValues aren't only the good - you want them to be only the good. It's like asking to judge the character of a person by only the good they do, not the bad
- hnmonkey 8y agoI don't think values means that at all. Some of the most evil people in history had values too, but they were considered awful by others. Many times in history their values from their perspective were noble, yet to others they were murdering people for their thoughts or speech.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The Spanish Inquisition occurred under the aegis of a church that had strayed so far from Judeo-Christian values that many of the most pious people in Europe would soon abandon it. The Spanish Inquisition (unlike the Papal Inquisitions, or the later Roman Inquisition) occurred under the aegis exclusivelt of the Spanish Crown; and “Judeo-Christian values” are most often cited as a thing by evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants trying to pretend that their views (often quite personal and not even broad enough to be sectarian) have some kind of broader grounding than can be justified factually. > Judeo-Christian values are hard to pin down Because “Judeo-Christian values” aren't actually a thing.
- Udik 8y ago> Because “Judeo-Christian values” aren't actually a thing. Also considering that Christianity is a rejection of many of the values and norms of Judaism.