2025-01-18
The Roman Catholic Church is infamous for its past activities that led to much suffering and death for those honest enough to make up their own minds about its doctrines and to live their lives accordingly. That isn't to suggest that other denominations were always blameless!
Rather than using such diverse opinions as learning opportunities for both parties, the Church sought to stamp them out in manner calculated to scare possible adherents to shut up and conform at least outwardly to Catholic dogma.
But was the Church ever about saving the faithful, or was it set up by the Roman Emperor of the time to corral those unruly Christians under the reliable leadership of his own bishops? Which motivation aligns with the Inquisition?
One may at least ask similar questions of the social media giants of today - were they set up to promote unfettered legal freedom of speech for the masses, or were they created by the CIA so that governments worldwide could "legally" suppress otherwise legal free speech that contravened rules that might be twisted to mean almost anything that the government might want them to mean, whilst deliberately confusing the true source of the resulting censorship?
Thus invoking those reliable allies of nefarious governments everywhere: complexity confusion and never-ending byzantine processes for resolving complaint.
The Brownstone Institute reports.
Still, in the spirit of simple enquiry, it's worth asking the unasked questions here, which in the case of the Catholic Inquisition might be: "is the administration of the sacraments of bread and wine, AKA the body and blood of 'the Saviour', really fundamental to the salvation of the faithful?" (as opposed to "fundamental to maintaining the dogma and authority of the Emperor's Church").
Likewise we might ask whether the whole fact-checking industry is designed protect the people from being misled or offended (or to maintain their outward compliance with ever-mutating government policies). Which would beg the question: does the government work for the people, or the people for the government?
No small question ...
Once again, motivation is all.
