What a surprise!

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Originally Posted by Dan40

Right now we have the Islamic Extremists and their Jihad. AND THEY ARE DANGEROUS TO THE EXTREME AND WE MUST DEAL WITH THEM HARSHLY, they will never negotiate meaningfully.
But that is now!

In the past we have had the "Inquisition!" Witch burnings and drownings in the name of religion. Crucifixions, many of them, for crimes and religions. Beheading and genocides of all sorts in the name of and under the APPROVAL of religions. This has gone on for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years and has shown itself in every spot on out globe.

Religions and liberalism, both preach love and compassion. Both will KILL you with kindness!

Yes the extremist came into power in the late 70's IN Iran and it's spread like wildfire since then.

But to say that Christianity is some equivalent is not quite correct.

First the Spanish Inquisition although inexcusable, does not come close to
the to the scope of Muslim history. During a 350 year period their were
between 3000 to 4000 put to death, at its height their were 10 per month
put to death. Plus many of those were victims of the Kings, such as King
Ferdinand of Spain who thought the Pope was too soft and escalated the
Inquisition, to take care of political enemies. Precise detailed records were
kept for the most part. Of course it is really Catholic in particular that was
involved along with corrupt government.

Second the in the Witch trials their were a total of 21 put to death in one
small New England village. Again inexcusable but relatively small in scope and
an isolated incident in American church history.


The point is that the Christian Faith although far from perfect and is not without blood on their hands has not been the mass murderer that todays urban legend make it to be. Plus compared to societies that have banned religion there is no comparison. The great Stalin at his height of rampage in 1937-38 was killing 40,000 per month. And than their is Anita Dunn's Obama's recent staff member and her favorite person Mao who killed between 60 to 70 million. Both of these hated religion and banned its existence but in the name of the people killed millions.