The Right-Wing Doesn’t Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let’s Talk About Christian At Comments

Doug

Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:22:54 +0000

For all the crticisims here regarding details and nuance I think we shouldn't lose the author's intent of holding Religion responsible for some of the worst atrocities humans have perpetrated on humans. Humility is the only way to honestly embrace our difficult past. We should take it as a cautionary tale. If it's not fostering unity and peace and taking steps toward understanding, then we have done and are doing religion wrong. People of faith have to come to a place where our faith traditions enable rather than hinder the common good not just our particular brand of good. We are all in this 'life thing' together. People of faith should be on the front lines of the fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all of humanity.

SModha

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:17:50 +0000

A very worthy article, but yet again the Goan Inqusition is totally ignored. This lasted for me ver 150 years and is one of the darkest moments in Indian History.

cpgmm

Sun, 25 Dec 2016 20:01:17 +0000

There is more here http://www.desicontrarian.com/the-christian-caste... THE CHRISTIAN CASTE SYSTEM

Jim

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:13:07 +0000

Regarding the claim that modern history has no examples of christian atrocities, one merely has to look at Northern Ireland.

Regarding the claim that hundreds of billions were killed by Muslims, the population of the earth is 7,404,976,783. Hundreds of billions would imply at least 200 billion, 27 times the population of the earth.

Nathan

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 02:24:08 +0000

Okay, but this does not justify the hundreds of billions killed by Muslims. I won't be holding my breath for a lefty to write an article summarizing all the terror that comes from Islam, though. Still, nice try.

Samantha

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:27:52 +0000

ALL religion sucks balls.
That is all.

helene Hazera

Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:42:47 +0000

there is a certain lack of nuance in your text both pro and again the church. The las pogrom in Poland was just after the war, on those who came back from the camps. Now all over occupied europe catholics and convents did hide jews. During the Dreyfus affair catholic church was furiously antisemite yet some proeminent writers like Peguy or Bloy were fighting for the innocence of Dreyfus. In the middle age saint Bernard defended the jews (while the croisés in Jerusalem massed the arab jews in their synagog and burned them).

Thomas T. Panto

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:05:33 +0000

Which religion is NOT a pile of lies needing threats of ''hell'', promises of ''heaven'' and an army of murderers to enforce itself on the population of the earth ?

Bill

Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:43:26 +0000

I'm sorry, but the Nazis were Christians. Their religion is not questionable! Hitler invaded the Soviet Union to rid the world of Bolsheviks a.k.a. Atheists and gain the admiration of the pope in a futile attempt to reunite a splintered Christianity. How is that not about religion?At the Malta conference Churchill gave eastern Europe to Stalin to keep the Soviet Union out of Greece and Italy in order to keep early Christian sites out of Bolshevik hands. In particular Rome and the Vatican. The British were frantic to reach Rome because the Soviets were quickly approaching and Churchill didn't trust Stalin not to take Rome and plunder the Vatican.

Antodav

Sat, 6 Aug 2016 03:37:34 +0000

These are some pretty terrible examples for what constitutes "Christianity", not to mention what constitutes a religiously-motivated atrocity. The Holocaust in particular had nothing to do with religion; there were many Christians who died in it, including Jehovah's Witnesses and people who happened to have a Jewish ancestor three or four generations back which qualified them as Jews by the Nazis' racial ideology, irrespective of what religion they practiced. The Crusades and other medieval wars are also poor examples. Everyone knows that the medieval Catholic Church was corrupt and driven primarily by very worldly political influences and greed. Religion was used as a disguise for these conflicts but was far from the actual motivations. Likewise, the Thirty Years War and other conflicts of the Protestant reformation were more about the desire for Germanic principalities and newly-founded republics to separate themselves from the political influence of the pope, not about doctrine. There is very little doctrinal difference in truth between Catholicism and Protestantism. Yes, it's wrong and hypocritical for Christians to treat Islam as if it is a uniquely violent religion, and these historical events and others can legitimately be brought up to prove otherwise, but this article's intention is more to bash Christianity over the head with a hammer than it is to demonstrate how *any* religion can be corrupted by nefarious worldly and secular influences when there is an insufficient separation between church and state. It also fails to define what Christianity even is in the first place, and the claim that slavery is justified by "biblical originalism" is especially egregiously specious given that the New Testament, which is the basis of Christianity, cannot be reasonably construed to justify the practice, at least not when translated properly. Just by looking at the Sermon on the Mount, it is blatantly obvious that all of these crimes are wholly inconsistent with the essential tenets of Christian morality as taught by Christ himself. As with Islam, the problem lies not with the religion, but with those who choose to practice it halfheartedly and are only interested in using bits and pieces of it to promote their own agendas, instead of submitting themselves to its teachings as a whole.

Erik

Sat, 28 May 2016 14:17:23 +0000

There's good reason to believe that modern racism itself stems from the period after the Moors were expelled from the Iberian peninsula. The classical world had slavery and forms of nationalism but not racism in the modern sense. And this, 1492, just before the beginning of new world slavery.

KJ

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 05:19:11 +0000

The genocide against Native Americans is ONGOING. Didn't end in the 1870's. Cultural genocide is taking place, forced sterilization, taking of Native children and placing with Christian families, cultural appropriation, chemical dumping on Indian ground, further Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BLM + BIA) land grabs of Treaty lands, police shootings of unarmed Native Americans, and women going missing and the police doing nothing to look for them, and the fact that 1:3 Native women are systematically raped, in over 80% of cases by white Americans......It hasn't ended

Chutney Bob

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 09:17:31 +0000

Informative article, however, the Holocast ended in 1945, not 1942, when Germany surrendered and the camps were liberated.

cowshark

Tue, 5 Apr 2016 02:43:59 +0000

Regarding the Library of Alexandria, it's not certain who was responsible for its destruction. Blame has gone to various cultures and religious types, and it's possible that the Library had multiple acts of destruction rather than just one, going back to Julius Caesar, who may have accidentally burned part or all of the Library during the siege of Alexandria (according to Plutarch, he was forced to set some of his own ships on fire and it spread to the Library). There are other possible events, described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_... The destruction of the Library is a great tragedy, and as a history and book nerd, it always makes me sad, but it can't be definitively blamed on any single group. If you're going to discuss history, you must always be accurate.

Phred

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:59:47 +0000

I might add that the cultural cleansing of the Native American peoples by Christian "do-gooders" continues to this day. I couldn't begin to count the number of flyers I receive in the mail imploring me to donate to this or that or the other "Indian School", supposedly to save the poor Indian children from their horrible lives. It only takes reading a few sentences into whatever letter they enclose to realize that by "save the poor Indian children", the saving they have in mind is conversion of the heathen to Christianity.

Truth

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 03:44:54 +0000

The difference is that these things happened long ago with Christians. And some assertions are exaggerations from an eager anti Christian leftist. Vietnamese death camps endorsed by Catholics? Wow. As a Vietnamese I will tell you that is patently false. Almost every act of religous ly motivated terror in modern times has been carries out by one religion. Either you're to stupid to see it or you're in denial. It never happens with Buddhists, Christianits, Hindus, etc. It only happens with Muslims.

TS

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:17:36 +0000

To expand the perspective, you could have mentioned that the inquisition was actually a radical improvement at the time, as it included alien ideas such as actual process, and, in comparison to past church tradition, predictable and humane sentences and punishment. As well as demands regarding the formal competence of the involved investigators, judges, and so on. Speaks volumes about the first 1000 years of practical biblical justice...

mik

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:30:36 +0000

well written and informative

pawnyourhalo

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:24:12 +0000

It may not be of a scale to count as an atrocity, but please consider adding the Puritan acts in the pre-U.S. colonies, mostly hangings, of Quakers, nonbelievers, different-believers, and people accused of witchcraft. Any non-Puritanism was a capital crime.

Ned_Heiden

Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:20:51 +0000

Very nice List :)