The movie was good. It had good production values and good acting. However, it took the typical cookie-cutter formula that Hollywood has adopted for bashing Christianity, and especially Catholicism, since the 1960s. After all, no one would believe in all this new-age crap if they didn't have a religion to bash, would they?
Here are the facts: The middle ages were a terrible time to live. These were a time when you would be put to death for walking on the King's lawn. It was the Catholic Church, and the inquisitions, that were the first to show common sense and mercy - thus bringing civility to this uncivilized period. Yes, you heard me right. You can believe all the lies the atheists, and Catholic/Christian haters have been using to revise history, or you can do some of your own research and learn the truth. Now, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against atheists. If they choose not to believe in a God, then that's their business. But why do they constantly have to attack people of faith? Are they really trying to convince people like me that there isn't a God, or themselves? Even Christians have fallen in to this trap by condemning Catholics and thinking their protestant church is superior. However, I would point out that during the black plague everyone was trying to burn everyone else for being a witch. It was actually the Catholic church, and inquisition, that put this madness to an end. Yes, the medieval and Spanish inquisitions saved more lives than they took (and BTW the royal courts of the time were far less objective and took multitudes of more lives than either inquisition). Conversely, when witchcraft mania struck the United States, the Protestants used little restraint or objectivity and killed far more people than the medieval inquisitions in far less time. I'm not bashing the Protestants, I'm simply saying that many of them are among the first to point to the "evil," "oppressive" Catholic church and call the inquisitions barbaric. As Christ said, "Let he without sin throw the first stone."
Regardless of all the myths, the Catholic church, while it had it's problems, was always more benevolent than the times of which it was a part. Take for instance Galileo. When you were a kid in high school you were probably taught that he was persecuted by the ignorant, and anti-scientific, Catholic church. What they didn't tell you is that most of his criticism came from his colleagues. Yes, just like today, the scientific establishment practically crucifies anyone that challenges accepted science with little to no proof. Conversely, the Catholic church actually funded the research of Copernicus who also had a solar-centric theory. Galileo's problem is that he kept taking the fight to the Catholic church who refused to accept his theory (mainly because he had no scientific proof). The technology of the time wasn't powerful or accurate enough to prove that the earth rotated around the sun. However, Galileo kept pushing it. He even went to Rome on multiple occasions in an effort to have the church reinterpret certain passages in the bible. It was Galileo who pushed his theory beyond the scientific community and into theology. Only then was he asked to recant his heresy, not his theory. To get him to do this the church did not torture him or kill him. They simple put him under house arrest in an environment that afforded him every convenience. Do you think I'm making this up? Then look into the historical record and see for yourself, but please, don't believe the text books that you read in school or Hollywood.
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