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Killings for Christianity

See also Killings for Islam.

Historical killings for Christianity

• See also Historical killings for Islam

• Religious persecution

• The martyrdom of Christians at the hands of the Romans (also here and here). This was one type of fascist killing another type of fascist - as was shown when the Christians finally got into power.
• The Inquisition and Slavery

• Ignorant Christian thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas continued to justify the killing of heretics and unbelievers throughout the medieval period.
• St. Thomas Aquinas justifies killing people who are not convinced by his arguments. See the Summa Theologica, 2nd Part of the 2nd Part, Question 11, Article 3. See also here.

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) (also here and here) has excellent accounts of:
  • The Crusades (also here and here)
  • The Witch-hunting (also here and here)

• The killing of Jews
  • Fascism
  • Christianity and the Holocaust

• The killing of scientists and thinkers

The Crusades

• The Crusades (and here and here)
• Rudolph J. Rummel estimates the Crusades butchered 1 million innocent civilian men, women and children (not in combat).

• The First Crusade
  • In 1095, Pope Urban II made this speech to launch the blood-letting of The Crusades.
  • The capture of Jerusalem, 1099. When they took Jerusalem, the Christian army butchered almost every man, woman and little child in the city.

• The Second Crusade
  • St. Bernard of Clairvaux (see search) said when launching the Second Crusade: "The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified."

• The genocide of the Cathars (also here)
  • In 1209, Pope Innocent III (also here) called for a crusade to exterminate the Cathar people of France (the Albigensians), simply because they had different superstitious beliefs to his own stupid beliefs. Men, women and children were butchered by the Pope's forces.
  • Rudolph J. Rummel estimates they butchered 200,000 innocent men, women and children.
  • The Church's War on the Cathars

• In 1233, Pope Gregory IX encouraged the extermination of the Stedinger people of Friesland, on the imaginary grounds that they were in league with the (equally-imaginary) Devil. "The devil appears to them in different shapes", said his holiness, "sometimes as a goose or a duck". The entire people were exterminated.

The Inquisition

• The Inquisition (and here and here)
• Rudolph J. Rummel estimates that the Inquisition butchered 350,000 innocent men, women and children.

• The Spanish Inquisition (and here)
  • The Spanish Inquisition under Ferdinand and Isabella was approved by Pope Sixtus IV in 1484.
  • The butcher Torquemada

• The Jewish Virtual Library
  • The Inquisition
  • The Spanish Expulsion of the Jews, 1492 - the entire Jewish community, 200,000 people, were expelled from Spain.

• The pioneer atheist and scientific thinker Giulio Cesare Vanini was burnt by the Inquisition of Rome in 1619.

The Witch-hunting

• Witch-hunting (also here and here and here) - perhaps Christianity's worst crime. Think how many poor innocents have been killed for God; how few have ever been killed for Satan.
• Many people think 1 million innocents were killed by the witch-hunters, though Rudolph J. Rummel thinks 100,000.
• Timeline of Witch-hunting (and detailed). Reading this should make you angry.
• The Burning Times: The Christian extermination of Witches and other heretics

• The Papacy's crimes of witch burning were based on the grossest superstitions - for example, the weather cannot have natural causes but must be caused by witches. This would be comical provided we do not think about what happened to the utterly innocent victims of these delusions - men, women and little children picked from the populace at random and tortured and put to death. The Papacy should hang its head for ten thousand years in shame for what it did.

• Pope Innocent VIII - probably the most evil of all the Popes, in the number of innocent men, women and children killed because of his words. Read his moronic declaration against witches in 1484. Essentially, because the causes of disease, bad weather, and other problems were not known in those dark times, their causes were attributed to imaginary witches who must be hidden in the populace.
• This was followed by The Witch Hammer (1486). Also here.

• Protestantism had no problem with the witch-burning, and continued the butchery of innocents long after the Reformation. For example, the "King James Bible" comes from one of these murderers. Luther, Calvin and Wesley supported the killing, just as they opposed science.
• The Salem witch hunt (also here), 1692.

• Witch-hunting survives into the present day with the hysterical belief in satanic ritual abuse.

The post-medieval period

• The Peasants' War, 1524-5, could be seen as an early communist revolution, complete with "cleansing" slaughter.
  • Thomas Muentzer said (see here and here): "curse the unbelievers ... don't let them live any longer, the evil-doers who turn away from God. For a godless man has no right to live if he hinders the godly. The sword is necessary to exterminate them ... if they resist let them be slaughtered without mercy ... the ungodly have no right to live, save what the Elect choose to allow them ... Now, go at them ... it is time ... The scoundrels are as dispirited as dogs ... Take no notice of the lamentations of the godless! They will beg you ... don't be moved by pity ... At them! At them! While the fire is hot! Don't let your sword get cold! Don't let it go lame!"

• The Pope, Sixtus V, blessed Spain's attempt to conquer England, 1588, and promised a plenary indulgence for all who took part.

• The Protestant-Catholic Wars of Religion
  • The Thirty Years War

• Fox's Book of Martyrs (see contents, also here) may have helped encourage centuries of persecution and killing of Catholics (which continues in Ulster today), but it also documents a long history of violence and murder against free thinkers by Rome.
  • The massacres of Protestants in Ireland in 1641

• Martyrs
  • The last Catholic martyr in Britain was Oliver Plunkett, executed in London in 1681.
  • The last atheist martyr in Britain was Thomas Aikenhead, executed in Edinburgh in 1697.
  • Atheists continued to be persecuted, and by the 19th century atheists in Britain were jailed rather than executed. In 1883, George Foote, editor of the Freethinker, was jailed for blasphemy. Apparently the church in England no longer believes that those who disagree with it should be jailed.
  • Catholics were denied the right to representation in Parliament until 1829.
  • Atheists were denied the right to representation in Parliament until 1886.
  • Atheist martyrs are still being killed in Islamic states and are even being killed by Muslims in the West.

• Many of the orders have shameful histories.
  • The Franciscans burnt the Mayan libraries in the 16th century, and helped organise the Nazi genocide in Croatia in the mid-20th century.
  • The Dominicans produced the mass murderer of innocents Torquemada, and they authored one of the most evil books in history, the Witch Hammer, which caused the cruel death of perhaps 1 million innocent men, women and children.
  • The Jesuits were instigators of the witch butchery.

Democide and slavery in the Americas and Africa

• The European conquest of the Americas (also here and here)
  • Rudolph J. Rummel estimates that 14 million native North and South Americans were killed by Europeans (and their American-born descendants) in democide in the conquest of the Americas. Much of this, especially in the Caribbean and South America, was driven by European Roman Catholicism.
  • Vatican support for this, 1455. Here, Pope Nicholas V supports the killing, forcible conversion and enslaving of unbelievers found in the new lands.
  • Articles on Columbus
    • Columbus and Genocide by Edward T. Stone
  • The burning of the Mayan libraries by the Spanish under the Franciscans.

• Slavery (and here and here)
  • Rudolph J. Rummel estimates that 17 million Africans were killed by Europeans (and their American-born descendants) in democide through slavery.
  • African slavery
  • Slave trade
  • U.S. history of slavery (and here)
  • Leopold II, King of the Belgians, butcher of the Congo Free State 1885-1908.

• Religion and slavery
  • Slavery in the Bible
    • Support for slavery in the Bible
    • The New Testament supports slavery
  • Christianity and Slavery (and blog)
    • The church explicitly supported slavery for centuries. Again, ignorant thinkers like Aquinas are found supporting it.
    • The Vatican explicitly supported slavery in 1839 and again in 1866.
    • In 1888 it first started stumbling towards the view that slavery was wrong.

• Slavery still exists today, in particular in the Islamic world:
  • Islamic Slavery
  • Slavery in Sudan today

Beatification and canonisation of flawed figures

• Spain's Roman Catholic bishops want to canonise Queen Isabella, who started the Inquisition to torture and kill heretics, ethnically cleansed the Jews and Muslims, and brought genocide to the Americas.

• Saint Francis Xavier brought the Inquisition to India, which tortured and executed thousands of innocent people.

• Sir Thomas More was canonised in 1935, and is glorified in the film A Man for All Seasons.
  • This vile murderer burned alive heretics and reformers, just because their superstitious beliefs differed from his own stupid beliefs. The fact that he himself was killed for the same reason does not suddenly absolve him of his crimes. Indeed, it seems like justice.
  • "Sir Thomas More: A Man for One Season" by James Wood.
  • Sir Thomas More was a religious maniac who wore a hairshirt, deliberately mortifying his body. He also practiced flagellation.

• Pius IX (Pope 1846-78) was beatified in 2000.
  • Pius IX refused to support a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. He said that: "such an association could not be sanctioned by the Holy See, being founded on a theological error, to wit, that Christians owed any duties to animals."
  • Pius IX was the last Pope to have temporal power, and to be able to abuse those unlucky enough to live in the Papal States.
  • In 1858, Pius IX's police brutally removed a 6 year old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, from his parents and forcibly raised him as a Catholic. The pleas of Edgardo's distraught parents counted for nothing. They never got their little boy back. This is minor compared with the brutality of the church throughout history, but the sheer cruelty of it makes Pius IX a disgusting figure that no decent person should respect.
  • Anti-Defamation League Statement on Beatification of Pope Pius IX
  • Judaism and Christianity are not real, the soul and baptism are not real, but a mother's love is real. A mother's pain is real.

• St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was martyred by the Nazis in Auschwitz in 1941, was, it is sad to say, a high-profile Polish anti-semite before the war. He wrote for a large audience on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the alleged Jewish-Zionist-Masonic-Communist conspiracy, and so on. While Kolbe himself went on to save, not kill, Jews, who knows what brutal acts during the war were inspired by his pre-war words?

• Pius XII, Pope during the Holocaust - in line for beatification.

Modern killings for Christianity

• See also Modern killings for Islam

• Christianity and the Holocaust

• The genocide of the Catholic Nazi state in Croatia in the mid-20th century

• Modern-day Protestant death squads operating in Ireland. - Along with the Serb Orthodox, these are the main killers for Christianity in the modern western world.

• People who have been killed so far to let the Christians of the Church of Ireland march down the Garvaghy Road:
  • The taxi driver Michael McGoldrick
  • Robbie Hamill
  • The Catholic girlfriend of a Protestant Bernadette Martin
  • Adrian Lamph
  • The three Quinn children
  • The policeman Frankie Reilly
  • The solicitor Rosemary Nelson
  • The Protestant wife of a Catholic Elizabeth O'Neill

• The 1994 Rwandan genocide was committed by Christians (Rwanda is 90 percent Christian).
  • In Rwanda, Islam means peace, Christianity means hate
  • The Cross and the Genocide - Notes that Rome has refused to excommunicate Catholics involved in the genocide - just as they refused to excommunicate Catholics involved in the Holocaust.
  • As it sheltered Nazi and Croat war criminals after WW2, so the Vatican sheltered war criminal Fr. Athanase Seromba for months after the Rwandan genocide.
  • War criminals still hiding, Jon Swain, Sunday Times, Aug 13, 2006 - The Vatican is believed to be still sheltering other war criminals.

• The mass murderers and rapists the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

• In Zimbabwe, the marxist-authoritarian Mugabe is also Catholic, and his murderous regime has long been protected by the Zimbabwe Catholic church.
  • Excommunicate Mugabe - Tony Allwright says: "in permitting Mr Mugabe to remain a Catholic, the Pope is demeaning the whole Church". If only more Catholics were like him. If only the Catholic hierarchy stood up for human rights internationally, and clearly differentiated between good and evil.

• Catholic Church sex abuse scandals

• Church support for and tolerance of tyranny:
  • The World Council of Churches (also here) supported Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. They are also (predictably) anti-Israel.
  • The National Council of Churches in the US are anti-Israel, anti-American, and have supported Castro and the PLO.

  • Bishops Against Iraqi Freedom - The United Methodist Church in the US is led by useless whining anti-Americans from whom one can expect no serious moral guidance. 96 United Methodist bishops called the liberation of Iraq "unjust and immoral". Another bishop called the liberation "morally lamentable" and "theologically reprehensible."

• The Church and Islamism
  • The Anglican Church and Islamism

  • The Catholic Church and Islamism