It usually comes up when a Christian is bashing the Islamic community for their terrorist extremists, and someone brings up the Crusades. "Yes, but that was a long time ago," is often the answer.
Do Christians realize that this flaggrant and flippant dismissal of past injustices is highly offensive? I know many Jews and Wiccans who find this sort of attitude to be very disgusting. I know African Americans feel the same when Christians dismiss the fact that the Bible was used to justify slavery for so very long.
Some of the Christians even deny that the Inquisitions happened at all, when there's mountains of historical evidence that millions died at the hands of both the Catholic and the Protestant churches!
I'm just wondering how it is fair to call Islam a "bad" religion because of its terrorists, but it's okay to dismiss Christianity's sordid history even though everything done during those times (war, burnings, slavery) was and is officially sanctioned by the Bible!
2007-01-17
04:55:48
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Aeryn Whitley
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