It's history is filled with wars and bloodshed, ignorance and superstition.
It openly endorsed and encouraged slavery and servitude, while fighting reform and science tooth and nail.
It's modern practitioners, somewhat neutered by secularism, have tried to become a kinder gentler church and pretend they were that way all along, mostly for PR reasons.
Women's rights and women's suffrage are the result of female Atheists like Susan B Anthony and Gloria Steinem. Reproductive rights, likewise, and how many Christian women use the 'rhythm method' or refuse to vote?
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1795
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