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One of the problems with claiming some moral high ground for Christianity is that the evidence just flat refutes it.No nation, no other religion or belief system does genocide on the scale of Christianity or with as much success as Christianity.From the very moment Christianity was adopted as a State Religion by Constantine it has been spread by force and by the simple step of totally destroying all remnants of any competing culture, belief, religion or philosophy or by adopting the cultural event and commandeering it to support Christianity.It has had one simply message; if you are not Christian convert or suffer the consequences both in this life and for eternity.

Of course Hitler was a Christian. That is not even subject to debate and anyone denying that fact is simply being willfully ignorant.I'm not sure if the US killed more people than either Nazi Germany or the USSR, but the US has certainly been far more efficient and effective in committing genocide.But what I said is "Nobody does genocide better than Christianity" and I'm not sure how anyone could possible even debate that fact.

Genocide is more than just killing folk, it is the intentional destruction of a people, a culture, a religion or religious group or a Nation.There, Christianity has been remarkably efficient and effective as has the US.All of the territory that is the US today was taken by genocide as well as all of South America, and in both cases one of the dominate tools used was Christianity and the forced imposition of Western Christianity to replace whatever cultures, religions, national identities that existed.And in addition there is a very strong movement particularly within US Christianity today to continue such Genocide and make the US a Christian Theocracy governed by Christian Law.

Yes, if that is the tool used then the religion must assume responsibility.Christianity has a long and very successful history of destroying or subverting the religions, places of worship, cultures, dress, languages and practices of others.

Probably not, unless you intended to make the spallin arrors.That wass an accident I hope, but the use of religion was intentional and accepted as a desired goal.

I certainly would when the religious folk were active and willing participants and in many cases one of the driving forces as in the case of the destruction of all other cultures in the US.One particularly dark example is what happened in Hawaii.

While it is true that many of the stories in the Bible are simply myths and fables; and the stories where there is some reason to think did actually happen it is pretty certain that accounts are both exaggerated and slanted to fit the authors position, the genocide committed by Christianity since Biblical times is pretty well documented.Christianity simply has never played nicely with any other belief system and seldom even plays nicely with other Christians.

We can discount all the atrocities in the Bible stories, there is still ample evidence that no religion has ever been better at genocide than Christianity.

Buz, during the Inquisitions the only Christians involved were Roman Catholics. There were no "true Christians" other than the Roman Catholics in the West.

Oh good grief Buz.In the West the only Christian Church was the Roman Catholic Church, the Church founded by Jesus untilFoxe's Book of Martyrs is a work of fiction and propaganda written long after the Inquisition.And if you want to honestly look at religious persecutions there were few as likely to kill others as the Protestants. Look at that Puritan Cromwell.If you would like I would be happy to see a thread where the subject can be discussed.

LOLMore utter nonsense.What happened to all of the various religions and cultures that were in pre-Christian Europe?

But GDR is not mute about the subject.

Too funny.Yes Liberal Christians do try to shield folk like you. We pray for your soul too. Yes we are a shield against extremism.We don't even ask you to be grateful.

Utter bullshit.We too have to deal with the extremists.No one has said it is still a faux-pa to mock the belief that we need a magic jewish zombie to forgive us for some rib-woman eating a fruit.No liberal I know of has ever said that "you need to let people believe what they want", it is the US Constitution that says that.Consider telling the truth and stop misrepresenting reality.

It really doesn't much matter what you see.And I did not say "pray for reduced extremism", I said pray for YOU.I think you will admit that I and several others do speak out against extremism.Apathy is certainly an issue, as it has always been. But Liberal Christianity is not the problem.