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Originally Posted by EE-BO
Well, why don't you prove to me that the long list of books I have read were not written by communists? As quick as you are to dismiss my positions, you don't really need the list of actual books to do that do you?
Do you deny that Spain, under the regime of Ferdinand and Isabella who were wholly enamored of the Catholic Church, expelled Jews and tortured its own citizens to achieve a stronger empire in the name of religion? Are you a Holocaust denier too?
I am sorry, but I am not going to give you a bibliography of over a decade's study. If you want to get educated- go out and start reading for yourself. I am not vilifying every person who was ever a Catholic, but merely talking about the corruption that evolved when the Church became a major world power.
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I'm not sure why you're focusing in on the Catholic church. There are plenty of other examples of murder and cruelty in (non-Catholic) Christianity. The Puritans had their witch trials, and the English had their burning-at-the-stake alternately in the name of Catholicism and Protestantism. The Church of England (now in the same body as Anglicans and Episcopalians) was essentially created by Henry VIII so he could divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn, who he beheaded later anyway with encouragement of the Church. Lots of executions and bad stuff in the name of religion, and not even close to always being Catholic.
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