Is Christianity good for the world? Killing in the name of..

Is it time to abandon the mindless mantra that religion is bad? Let us see:

Many find ways to exaggerate the crimes attributed to religion, often while ignoring the greater crimes of secular fanaticism. Are most religious wars fought over actual religion? Or is there another reason behind the religious wars? We often hear of the Crusades and the Inquisitions while often those who most critique Christians inflate the numbers. How do the actual numbers compare throughout history to more recent secular fanaticism?

Christians are dying by the rate of one every five minutes. The persecution has increased, will it continue to worsen? What are your thoughts, and share why you believe what you do.

[Miss Hepburn]

Ah, mindless you say...what a charmer...how to win friends and influence people...

If one person was killed by greedy, fear based, power hungry Men
in Power using their rank of Pope or Archbishop in the name of Jesus or
Allah, or God it is a disgrace and as sad to our Father in Heaven as when Cain killed Abel.
Like when Obi Wan felt the deaths of that peaceful planet.....their was a vast
disturbance in the Force.

Is there fanaticism in the world? Well, you don't see me vacationing in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Ah, mindless you say...what a charmer...how to win friends and influence people...

If one person was killed by greedy, fear based, power hungry Men
in Power using their rank of Pope or Archbishop in the name of Jesus or
Allah, or God it is a disgrace and as sad to our Father in Heaven as when Cain killed Abel.
Like when Obi Wan felt the deaths of that peaceful planet.....their was a vast
disturbance in the Force.

Is there fanaticism in the world? Well, you don't see me vacationing in Mexico.

Please share your view on the many who were killed by them. Perhaps you wouldn't mind differentiating between the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong too?

Question, do you think that the people at least found them charming? What's the reasons why so many people followed them? They didn't think that they were doing wrong, the people agreed and supported them, or at least ignored so many cries. What was the reason for the death tole to reach and exceed over 100 million people?

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by TeeHee

Please share your view on the many who were killed by them.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind differentiating between the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong too?

Question, do you think that the people at least found them charming?
What's the reasons why so many people followed them?
They didn't think that they were doing wrong, the people agreed and supported them, or at least ignored so many cries. What was the reason for the death tole to reach and exceed over 100 million people?

Why are you asking me? I said my peace.
You walking down memory lane of atrocities is not my cup of tea, thank you very much.
But, have it...I'm just not there with ya.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Why are you asking me? I said my peace.
You walking down memory lane of atrocities is not my cup of tea, thank you very much.
But, have it...I'm just not there with ya.

You sure enjoy taking pot shots then bailing when the fire returns.

You think the Inquisitions and Crusades were based on________ ? Was it really a religious Agenda? Y'know that it is said people who don't know their history are bound to repeat it. In some countries if you deny the holocaust existed you can be thrown into prison. Lets talk about the 5-6-10 people put to death during those Inquisitions and Crusades every year. Did you know that that was the yearly numbers that spanned some 350 years?

But some like to preach awareness and then turn a blind eye. Why do you think that is?

[Seawolf]

New Age is largely based on reaction to traditional religion. The overwhelming mindset is that religion is bad, our new ideas good. But modern movements retain the same amount of prejudice that it reacted against. One always sees itself as better than the other or having the 'Truth' that the other doesn't. It's a way for people to feel good about themselves. Having the 'Truth' that others need gives us a sense of value and fulfills an emotional need for significance and feeling 'special'.

[Miss Hepburn]

Well TeeHee, you cast the first stone calling people mindless that speak of religions badly.
When they are not at all.
So, ya got the first one in and now the last one in.
B-bye.

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Well TeeHee, you cast the first stone calling people mindless that speak of religions badly.
When they are not at all.
So, ya got the first one in and now the last one in.
B-bye.

Ah, the defender of other people when general blanket statements are made about mindless acts of violence. Lets use real stones here, because this is what I'm talking about. If not mindless then there's reason. I'm certain the people of that time considered themselves extremely rational. The people cannot really be argued to have been primitive (a previous argument you made in another thread), because we're talking about the last one hundred years. Can you share the reasons why the people stood behind such secular fanaticism?