I would pin that more on the fault of the Church rather then the individual Christians. Historically the Catholic Church and Papacy. They were basically an Empire in their own right.
Definitely historically the biggest offender, but even though it’s compelling to absolve others, it’s simply not true, even smaller denominations can do much evil, like the US evengelicans, and not to mention crazy heterodox cults which seems all to be more or less anchored in christianity. And i’m not even talking solely about the west, remember the South Vietnam or the Taiping Rebellion.
Of course, though some of those things like evangelicals would probably happen with or without the church. It just gives those people a good excuse. But the Taiping Rebellion wasn’t really Christian based, as Hong Xiuquan with simply just extremely mentally ill and delusional.
as Hong Xiuquan with simply just extremely mentally ill and delusional.
It was still based on christianity. While he was certainly mentally unwell, we can’t be sure if it would play the same without christianity, if he was inspired by something else, he could go in entire other way.
Like the so-called “Indian Residential Schools” which are slave camps in North America to enslave, torture, rape, murder, and steal the inheritance of children with at most three quarter European ancestry. There is the unethical experimentations that the Nazi German could later copied in their Holocaust, the misuse of funds from Indigenous landowners who thought that their enslaved children will occupy elite positions in European immigrant society, fake documents with fake signature to transfer family inheritance to free riding European immigrants, and impersonation of Metis children to steal the inheritance of the murdered Metis children. Furthermore, the fake school survivors receive so much savage indoctrination that their children and grandchildren do not understand the concept of family love.
Such unwarranted hatred of Christians!! It’s not like Christianity has a history of being used as a tool of colonialism or anything, right??
I wouldn’t call it a tool, it was and still is huge beneficient and willingly participating partner.
I would pin that more on the fault of the Church rather then the individual Christians. Historically the Catholic Church and Papacy. They were basically an Empire in their own right.
Definitely historically the biggest offender, but even though it’s compelling to absolve others, it’s simply not true, even smaller denominations can do much evil, like the US evengelicans, and not to mention crazy heterodox cults which seems all to be more or less anchored in christianity. And i’m not even talking solely about the west, remember the South Vietnam or the Taiping Rebellion.
Or the fuckin Moonies
Of course, though some of those things like evangelicals would probably happen with or without the church. It just gives those people a good excuse. But the Taiping Rebellion wasn’t really Christian based, as Hong Xiuquan with simply just extremely mentally ill and delusional.
It was still based on christianity. While he was certainly mentally unwell, we can’t be sure if it would play the same without christianity, if he was inspired by something else, he could go in entire other way.
Like the so-called “Indian Residential Schools” which are slave camps in North America to enslave, torture, rape, murder, and steal the inheritance of children with at most three quarter European ancestry. There is the unethical experimentations that the Nazi German could later copied in their Holocaust, the misuse of funds from Indigenous landowners who thought that their enslaved children will occupy elite positions in European immigrant society, fake documents with fake signature to transfer family inheritance to free riding European immigrants, and impersonation of Metis children to steal the inheritance of the murdered Metis children. Furthermore, the fake school survivors receive so much savage indoctrination that their children and grandchildren do not understand the concept of family love.