1.

Well, it’s a not-uncommon attitude within a medieval/early-modern religious context. One of the repercussions of an ideology that elevates the spiritual as the only important realm and the material as corrupt and sinful is a certain devaluation of the human body as a mere container for the soul. Thus, whatever you do to the body is far less important than whan what happens to the soul – this is the logic at the very heart of many different forms of religious violence, from the Massacre at Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade to the horrific reprisals of the Thirty Years War to the last days of the Spanish Inquisition.

2.

I’ve discussed this here. It’s moderately generous, but not enough to pull any of them up to the status of a knight.

3.

Baelish holds the land from the crown, and while that’s only technically true for most fiefdoms, Harrenhal is a special case because of the connection to Aegon the Conqueror.

Ser Bonifer Hasty was appointed castellan of Harrenhal by Queen Regent Cersei and thus ultimately by the authority of King Tommen, in Littlefinger’s absence.