Please forgive me, this is my post for Friday September 11,
I forgot to post it…
The ultimate sin, since the
beginning of time, has always been that as a human you can be equal or better
than God. So, for Medieval Inquisitors the claims of someone being Christ would
become the critical thing to search for. Luckily for John of Winterthur he
stumbled across three men who claimed to be the Trinity in physical form. After
bravely going undercover to reveal them for the frauds that they were he cast out the unholy forms and the worshipers were left behind. Then they “were
warned to cast off the filth of superstitions and devilish deceit, to reflect,
and to profess the true faith, as they ought to do, the persevered in their
heretical perversity, being too much ensnared and seduced. They preferred to
perish in the fire, in the midst of their sins, to being saved by confession of
the truth faith” (Norman Cohn 71). What I can’t help but to think is that some
small town in France believed that they had one of the relics of Jesus Christ
and that an educated man comes to town searching for some sign of the Devil. He
got them to confess their beliefs and marked them down as heresy instead of
showing them how they were ‘wrong’. Who would confess to a sin that they did
not believe that they committed? Also, how could have these less educated people protected themselves from these sort of mental attacks?
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