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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
And I'm sure they have no problems butchering Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and anyone else that's not an atheist.
The fact is that the only nations atheists have ever built and build are communist ones.
Everyone that's on the left of the political spectrum can suddenly turn into a bunch of fucking brutal barbaric murderous savages. They scream that they're the "good guys' but when they get into power they turn government into a god. Anyone questioning them is marginalized and physically assaulted if needed.
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Every single nation started by Christians has murdered tens of thousands.. your argument is dumb.. Christians by and large have killed millions...
The Christian Church and its association with torture and physical abuse
Up to the fifth century AD Christians seem to have an inkling that there was something morally questionable about torture and killing. Christian torturers and executioners generally delayed their own baptism until just before death. The Church assured them that any sins of which they might have been guilty were thus washed away, and no lasting harm was done to their immortal souls. For the next thousand years and more, when Christianity was at the height of its power, the Church regarded brutality and killing as perfectly acceptable, and no such precautions were thought necessary. Mutilation, branding and flogging were commonplace. The Church found it acceptable for people to be flogged for the most trivial offences, even for things that are not now considered offences at all. Amongst them were vagrancy, drunkenness, drinking on a Sunday, having an illegitimate baby, even for contracting smallpox.
Torture had been used as punishment and as a method of eliciting information in ancient times, but thinkers like Seneca and Cicero had recognised both its injustice and its futility as a means of discovering the truth. Such ideas did not impress Christians, and as we shall see (The Inquisition page 364) the Church was responsible for introducing torture into almost all European penal systems, without any of the original roman safeguards. .
I bet notinmybackyard supported waterboarding while sitting here proclaiming to be holier than thou... This is the problem with relgious nutters they always think their actions are justified while condemning others for the exact same..