LV426 (10-18-2019)
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Report: Christianity declining in America at 'rapid pace'
http://www.cuzzblue.com/2019/10/repo...lining-in.html
LV426 (10-18-2019)
I'm quoting from history and you created a false narrative in your original post. Everybody who came to America didn't do it to escape Catholicism. Your personal hatred of Catholics has overcome the facts. If there is any group that should be a hate group, it would be the Westboro Baptists.
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Cypress (10-18-2019)
StoneByStone (10-18-2019)
[QUOTE=LV426;3307753]The simple fact that the Catholic Church knew about and covered up decades -probably centuries- of child abuse by Priests should have led to the destruction of the Catholic Church, the jailing of top officials, and the seizure of its global assets.
No amount of good they can do will ever balance out the bad. [/quote]
It's a fair argument to say the Church covered up pedophilia for decades. It's also fair to say that Protestants also covered up pedophilia for decades, Judaism covered up pedophilia for decades, schools have covered up pedophilia for decades, Boy Scouts covered up pedophilia for decades, Penn State covered up pedophilia for decades etc.
This isn't a religious problem, it's a perverted human being problem. Perverts always have been and will be with us forever.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
[QUOTE=christiefan915;3307925]Well said (i'm referring to the bolded portion of your response). It's fair to point out the problems with religion and pedophilia but you are spot on that it's a human problem and ridding the world of religion isn't going to change that.
People are free to be anti-religion but it's disingenuous to single out religion on this issue.
christiefan915 (10-18-2019)
Rightwing Christian jihadists are the most likely to dehuminize Muslims and to hold the belief that Jews are going to burn in eternal hellfires
The real issue here is not religion. It is ignorance
I know plenty of real Christians who maintain respect for Muslims and Jews, and do not dehuminize them or treat them as the enemy
christiefan915 (10-18-2019), Into the Night (10-18-2019)
Hitler killed in the space of few years. Same with Stalin and Pol Pot. None of them took centuries to kill their millions.
Blaming these deaths on Christians is nothing more than bigotry. Yes, there have been deaths caused by overzealous Christians, but to blame all Christians for the act of a few is bigotry.
Let's take your argument further:
Since all of these deaths were caused by human beings, then all human beings, including you, is guilty of murder.
estimates are that 15% or higher are gay so you need to stop with the stupididty. https://slate.com/human-interest/201...y-gay-men.html
I never said all of them were from England but the ones we usually think of when discussing the beginnings of the US were the Pilgrims and Puritans. Furthermore, all Christians are not Catholics.
I guess you missed this part of the article you linked:
"Additionally, if the death tolls for Christian atrocities needs to be put under heavy scrutiny, then the same applies to atheist atrocities. For example, Stalin is often accused of causing 30 to over 60 million deaths, but the release of Soviet Archives have lowered his body count to 3[63] to 15[64] or possibly 20 million.[65] If one is to argue the Soviet Archive figures are unreliable,[66] then one could make the same case for the Catholic archives, which have lowered their estimated body count for the Inquisition significantly;[67] in fact, far more than the estimate for Stalin's death toll has been lowered."
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Cypress (10-18-2019)
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