Christain history. Do positives outweigh negitives?

Question

Writing a term paper on intolerance over tolerance. I have to argue that intolerance throughout history has more positives than negatives.

Answer 1

Christians were not tolerant during much of their history, at least, not compared to what is considered tolerant now. Intolerance holds social order to a standard. Modern tolerance is the allowance of decay to our culture.

Answer 2

If you think that there are more positives than negatives, you don't know much about the Christian religion in history. acgsk posted some great information.

Add to that the executions carried out in the name of the Inquisition. The witch hunts in Europe where people were tossed into a lake, if they sank they were innocent and it was seen as a needed loss, if they floated they were witches and burnt at the stake.

Honestly... how can you possibly say the good outweighs the bad?

Do you honestly think that witches fear Christians for no reason?

"persecution has included unwarranted arrest, war, inquisition, imprisonment, beating, rape, torture, execution or ethnic cleansing. It also may refer to the confiscation or destruction of property, or incitement to hate non-Christians."

And did you forget the native Americans persecuted and murdered by crazy Christians as infidels?

Christianity is one of the most intolerant and cruel religions in the world. And not just to those they consider heathens. Even towards other Christians.

Answer 3

Intolerance is only a benefit to those promoting their beliefs, but at the same time these intolerant people must rely on the tolerance of others so that their message can be heard. Quite ironic don't you think?

Answer 4

With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed tens of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped out tens of millions in Europe. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.

Since they think killing people is cool, the millions of deaths here are more positive than negative.

Answer 5

your going to have a hard time on that one. While Christian Europe did have some positive benefits the 800 year loss of almost all scientific progress and the suffering at the hands of the Church cannot be ignored.

if it was not for the fact I would have no idea of how the would would turn out otherwise I would say that for a majority of its history Christianity has been a blight on human civilization.

Answer 6

The only avenue of thought I can give you on that is, intolerance got us to where we are today. Suppose the Puritans and the other early immigrant, conservative, christian groups were tolerant with the indigenous peoples? World history would have shifted.

There's more to it, but the rest is up to you to research.

Answer 7

History books will prove that bad deeds tend to be written and remembered that good things. The history of the Christian church is full of evil acts from both side of the spectrum (the Catholic and the Protestant groups). But both spectrums contributed immensely to the positive growth knowledge. There are a lot of Catholics (Darwin, Newtom) and Protestant who are scientists and men of knowledge.

Unfortunately a lot of us seems to be stuck in the Middle Ages.

Answer 8

Intolerance: 1.lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.
2.incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure: intolerance to heat.

There's nothing positive about that word, so how could you argue them? Your report will be reaching that's for sure.

Answer 9

rotsa ruck.

once you add up the known body-counts, the known tortures, slaveries, genocides, oppression, etc., even without getting into estimates of the attrocities not fully known, you get a pretty ugly picture.

PS agsk didn't get to everything. There's also the untold millions of dead Indians (and the destruction of native cultures for the rest), for example. Add in Africa, Asia, Australia, and all the other 'holy' wars, you'd still barely touch the tip of the iceberg.

Answer 10

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