mercedo wrote today at 1:12 AM
ullangoo saidThe Catholic church teaches that suiciders go to Hell Thanks. Jesuit society in 16c taught killing yourself is forbidden. This dogma is so new to Japanese warriors since many samurai considered killing himself is virtue to show his faithfulness to master. I don't remember any explicit prohibition of suicide in the Bible. Many other religions taught giving up their lives are virtue. As you pointed out Catholic taught suicide is against God's will in spite of the fact that no explicit statement that forbade killing yourself can be found in Bible. Adhesion to life is very strong throughout Middle Ages in Catholic church. Peasants had been needed to be alive to offer labour power, hence basic economy to nobles, monks, king. Peasants were dead souls.