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Originally Posted by mister_lister  I guess I qualify on two points:
1) I view the bible as fabrication (white lies) most stuff is wisdom other stuff is basically lies (caused by delusional thinking).
2) I was a hardcore Christian for 18 years. I can not tell you how many times I have heard sermons and read the bible cover to cover. I know that book better than most of the population. I can quote you doctrine until the sun comes up tomorrow. I won't quote you verses, I think that is anal retentive .
If you want to know where the bible errors in it's many ways (there is not one "way" if you actually read the book you would know) check out this website: Evil Bible
That is an excellent resource for what is fundamentally flawed about the Bible
If you are a true "truth seeker" and diligent as Christ demands, the bible is a stopping point on a long journey. |
True, the goan inquisition perpetrated by the portuguese christians in Goa in India is quite infamous for its barbarism and great cruelty and slaughter of innocent men and women and children.
In Europe, the Goa Inquisition became notorious for its cruelty and use of torture, and the French philosopher Voltaire wrote
"Goa is sadly famous for its inquisition, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshipping The Devil, while it is they who served him." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition
historian, Dr. T. R. de Souza
"The Goan inquisition is regarded by all contemporary portrayals as the most violent inquisition ever executed by the Portuguese Catholic Church. It lasted from 1560 to 1812.......... So harsh and notorious was the inquisition in Goa, that word of its brutality and horrors reached Lisbon but nothing was done to stop this notoriety and escalating barbarity and it continued for two hundred more years. Nobody knows the exact number of Goans subjected to these diabolical tortures, but perhaps it runs into hundreds of thousands, may be even more.......... Dr. Trasta Breganka Kunha, a Catholic citizen of Goa writes, "Inspite of all the mutilations and concealment of history, it remains an undoubted fact that religious conversion of Goans is due to methods of force adopted by the Portuguese to establish their rule. As a result of this violence the character of our people was destroyed. The propagation of Christian sect in Goa came about not by religious preaching but through the methods of violence and pressure." “
"Historians consider the Goa Inquisition the most merciless and cruel ever" Excerpts from interview with Richard Zimler, author of Guardian of the Dawn, by Lindsay Pereira of Rediff.com (14 SEP 2005).
The goan inquisition was brought to an end by the Hindu maratha warriors from the deccan who thrashed the portuguese.