AllieBaba
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- Oct 2, 2007
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If you feel compelled to go back to the Crusdades to prove Christians are violent, then essentially you are admitting it's not a problem today.
And I guess it's time to point out, AGAIN, that the Roman Catholic Church was a political body, on a par with Islam, that joined together with solely political factions, to pursh a political agenda. It's heyday of violence was short lived and dependent upon the support and being used by the political powers of the day, namely as a tool to prevent Islam from conquering Europe and taking over the Middle East...which had been tribal and Christian until Islam began to expand and butcher it's way across the globe. The Catholic Church was the one unifying body Europe had that it could use to fight back agains this threat, and they did. And it worked famously.
Of course it went too far, and ultimately the countries of Europe were using the church and religion as an excuse to enact political atrocities and squelch political foes, and that, of course, was wrong.
But this was a very long time ago,and there's no indication it's going to happen again or the church has any interest in involving itself in such a mess again.
Besides which, the days where the church exerted such political power are over. We have too many other denominations and while Catholicism is still a very powerful religion, countries no longer band together with the church to accomplish military success.
And I guess it's time to point out, AGAIN, that the Roman Catholic Church was a political body, on a par with Islam, that joined together with solely political factions, to pursh a political agenda. It's heyday of violence was short lived and dependent upon the support and being used by the political powers of the day, namely as a tool to prevent Islam from conquering Europe and taking over the Middle East...which had been tribal and Christian until Islam began to expand and butcher it's way across the globe. The Catholic Church was the one unifying body Europe had that it could use to fight back agains this threat, and they did. And it worked famously.
Of course it went too far, and ultimately the countries of Europe were using the church and religion as an excuse to enact political atrocities and squelch political foes, and that, of course, was wrong.
But this was a very long time ago,and there's no indication it's going to happen again or the church has any interest in involving itself in such a mess again.
Besides which, the days where the church exerted such political power are over. We have too many other denominations and while Catholicism is still a very powerful religion, countries no longer band together with the church to accomplish military success.