The Catholic Church bases its decisions in their own legal system which is contained in different ¨holy texts¨ but most of the people involved in the church do not understand the outlaws.
It’s completely normal that people understand what their own social circle has been taught. In that way is perfectly correct that priests think everything the bible said is true and good. At the same time they don’t understand that the outside has its own laws and ways of thinking.
It’s precisely in the upper point when the trouble starts. A titanic battle of ¨what rule should be followed comes¨. The outside laws system is trying to make a peaceful and secure situation for their population. Even if the Catholic Church system try’s the same, the system is only based on some old texts and does not have any kind of legal logic and juridical process.
For centuries (5-15 th) Church was the most powerful organization in the (world) and the country that showed more interest in Catholic Church legal system was Spain; they were so into the Church ideals that they even aloud the Pope and Cardenals to make states decisions.
The greatest fear of Church is to lose its power and control over people, and that fear in the 15 century leads into one of the longest and terrifying persecution of all humanity (even bigger that Hitler´s) inquisition.
The inquisition was so big and devastating for many reasons, but the principal one, was a big problem in the Catholic law system. In those times the simple fact of accusing someone as a witch or wizard was enough proves to give capital penalty to anyone.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was a tribunal established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms, and to replace the medieval inquisition which was under papal control. The Inquisition worked in large part to ensure the orthodoxy of recent converts, especially those Jews, Muslims and others coerced on pain of death to adopt the Christian religion. Various motives have been proposed for the monarchs' decision to found the Inquisition, such as increasing political authority, weakening opposition, suppressing conversos, and profiting from confiscation of the property of convicted heretics. The new body was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy. It was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabella II.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition)
So after all everything they wanted was to remain in power. Power that they were and are losing because of their bad legal system and their close mind to accept, that church and state are different and separate things. And even if they chase the same purpose (peaceful existent) their own laws do not allow to anyone follow them.
Ashanti Diaz Ocampo.
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Church had been always possesive with their followers, they believe blindly in their faith and they have punished the ones that do not believe in their customes or thoughts. Nowadays, church is still manipulating people with misinformation. Since ever, church had been the church and had won power through this.
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Post author: Ashanti Diaz O.
We already know that since the past the church wants the power. But of course things chance because in the past church had the power, know that is not possible because they way of thinking of the humans change.
Church is powerful because they make people belief, and in a way they change or want to change the way people think.
Another thing that makes church powerful is that it has a lot of money. One of the most common ways church make money was with the tithes.
Church wanted to control everything and killed the people that do not follow their rules so for that reason also people were afraid of the church. And that make if more powerful. But church star to loss power when people change their way of thinking, and do not follow their rules.
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Ashanti Diaz
In ancient times the church controlled everything , there was no power that could match him, the proof is in all the achievements that were made in the name of the church and all the dead of innocent people in the inquisition. The church took advantage of people´s faith to gain power over them, this was a big weapon until the people realized that many of the orders were a trick. In this days the church lost his power and all the territories that their conquered. I find interesting the strategies used by the church to regain power things like comment on political issues and try to convince the people that they are right following the word of god.