| ▲ | somenameforme 11 hours ago |
| Christianity. When Emperor Constantine converted Rome to Christianity, he began laying out various restrictions on the games including prohibiting it being used as a punishment or even as an option for criminals, forbade the branding of gladiators, and so forth. Emperor Honorius would then completely ban the games, which had already dwindled by then, in honor of the martyrdom of Saint Telemachus. [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Telemachus |
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| ▲ | tptacek 10 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I guess, but the Catholics brought the death spectacles --- human sacrifice, essentially --- back in another form and kept them going until the 1600s. |
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| ▲ | gadders 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | But they also ended the human sacrifice in Latin America. | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | While continuing it themselves in a different capacity. (I'm Catholic; I'm not dunking on Catholicism.) |
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| ▲ | red_trumpet 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Could you please elaborate what you are talking about? | | |
| ▲ | closewith 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The Catholic Church, amongst others, regularly executed heretics, often by immolation. | | |
| ▲ | xaldir 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement.
The civil authorities then did what the law called for. |
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| ▲ | Loic 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Witch burning, with the capacity to have any woman for any reason marked as a witch. | | |
| ▲ | s1artibartfast 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Witch burning ran largely on public sentiment. It wasn't democratic per say, but relied on a community turning on its members, either out of paranoia or jealousy. More akin to a slow and formalized mob lynching than some top down affair. |
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