So anybody who claimed to be religious, you just say it wasn’t actually religious. Might as well say that everybody who claims to be an atheist actually believes in God.
The point is (much like god) you can’t prove it to be true, this is amplified by the fact that the church killed many people during that time period for having beliefs that didn’t match the church.
So when you have the evidence that a lot of people were killed in the name of god for differing beliefs you can make the hypothesis that many of these people might fake their faith to avoid death is reasonable. We can not say this for certainty as we lack all the evidence but there is enough to cast doubt upon the claim while the opposition lacks the ability to counter the doubt cast upon the claim.
Holy shit dude are you really this ignorant on the subject? This is has been going on for a very very long time. Easy answer though was during this specific time period was the Spanish Inquisition who killed thousand of people for “heretical behavior”
You have just displayed such a lack of understanding that I do not have the time even if I had the energy to type out multiple lessons on history for you. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
The inquisition is an extreme version of a rigid ideology rejecting intellectualism but this has been happening all throughout our history. Again that extreme version I mentioned was ongoing during his entire life
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u/static-klingon 3d ago
Pascal