I've seen people saying that Christianity has evilness. Well, could you prove it?

Question

Dont' get me wrong, I'm an open-minded person and would want to know if my religion has some evil in it. So, please, share your knowledge about how Christianity is evil.

Could you PLEASE give a definite example. Not like this one answerer that just said "Crusades" and leaves.

P.S.

What's wrong the the Crusades?
Intruders went into the city...apparently, Christians didn't like it..so they kicked their asses. Anyone can do that. That's not evil..it's just violent.

Yes, God did kill many people. But...duh...remember that HE gave that life to ya. He has every right to take it away from you. HE'S GOD REMEMBER??

Answer 1

Religion has done more harm to humanity than it has good. I'm sorry you can't see that, probably because you don;t want to see that. You're not open minded at all. You're out to make a point that you already believe.

Answer 2

There are several types of Christianity, so you will have to narrow down the field. I would probably say that there are many people who would say Christianity is evil due to the way past Catholic Popes have acted.

Several past Popes may have abused the power given to them and themselves sinned by disobeying the teachings of Jesus, but that doesn't make the teachings themselves, or the religion Jesus founded evil. It makes the actions of the Pope's evil though. I guess this may have also happened in other Christian denominations as well, so in summary:

The problem is that some people aren't smart enough to be able to seperate the set in stone teachings of Jesus Christ with the behaviour of the Christian religious leaders- which have at times completely contradicted what Our Lord taught.

Everyone is a sinner. Religious leaders are no different. They have more power than the regular person and therefore if that power is abused, the sin is greater. The Christian or at least Catholic teaching itself is nothing less that a doctrine that preaches love.

Whoever told you that Christianity is an evil religion was not smart enough to catch on to or articulate enough to express the fact that personal sin and doctrine (teaching) are completely seperate. By the way, I am Catholic.

Good question. Needed to be answered.

Answer 3

Well, let's see. Are all muslims evil, too? How about Hindus and Budhists?
Anyone can call themself a Christian, and do evil things. I can call myself a rose. Does that make me one?
The people that say Christianity is evil, are seeing those who do things in the name of Christianity that are evil. KKK??? Crusades???
They say our God is evil because he killed so many. God is justified in whatever He does. He is the creator of all things. He giveth, and He taketh away. He also said "It rains on the righteous as well as the wicked." There were reasons why God did what He did. You have to know the entire Bible to understand the things He has done. Sometimes he used a certain group of people to do away with another group of people. But, He had reasons. God knows the future, and He knows what will happen in the future, and we cannot. I will not try to second guess Him. He is God Almighty. And He is justified. And He is just and righteous to judge.

Answer 4

Could we prove evilness?

... What kind of a stupid question is that?
The concept of evil is so entirely subjective that you could pick out two random people in the street and they would like have glaring differences between their definitions of what "evil" even is!
Given that people have a hard time even agreeing on its precise meaning.... how the sweet heck do you suppose anyone is supposed to "prove" that something is evil?

I mean... the only thing I would ever consider "evil" is S*ny Computer Entertainment. If you willingly bought any "Playstation" console then you have committed a heinous sin...... BUT, even if I proved that you had willingly bought such a thing, you wouldn't accept that as proof of evil because your definition of "evil" is something else entirely (and not something I could know, as I'm not you... obviously)...

Therefore I can safely say you're making an absurd request, and what you're asking is impossible.


On the other hand, if you were to ask me to prove that christianity is stupid..... THAT I could do to some extent (though it would take a while, and have some subjectivity issues regardless, but then what doesn't?)...

Answer 5

You will know them by their works. The history of slaughter, torture and corruption that is Christianity is well known. Starting with the great pogroms against non Christians just as soon as the Christians gained control of the Roman government to the incredible evil of the Mid East Crusades to the Inquisition and the Witch Craze, from the mass slaughters of the Lithuanian crusades to the Reformation Wars to the Holocaust, the history of Christianity is cruel, bloody and senseless. By their works you shall know them.

Answer 6

The anti-abortion rights movement, and its associated terrorism.
The creationist movement.
The anti-homosexual movement.
The "Dominionist" movement.
Christianity played an instrumental role in putting George Bush into the White House.

That being said, Christianity is also a great force for good. I believe that on the balance, it's roughly a wash, though the Dominionist thing threatens to push it over to the evil side. Destroying the United States would be a terrible act.

Answer 7

After the death of the apostles, and with the growth of Christianity, the emperor of Rome decided to make it a state church, everyone took on the name Christian, and any one that disagreed with this concept, "Off with his head." Martin Luther, a Catholic Priest, opened the way for individual thinking again which has been pursued down to this day, and that is why we are all exchanging rationale as to which way is the right way, because it is yet to be resolved.

Answer 8

Christianity is not evil!! Some people take it amoung themselves to personally twist the religion for their own personal uses.

Some people use the bible to justify killing, slavery, and other horrible things but dont take that out on the whole religion.

Answer 9

Personally I don't see the whole "If you don't believe you will burn in Hell for eternity" thing being too good. I was taught that you didn't torture other people, but that's just me.

Addition: You don't see anything wrong with the Crusades? Nothing wrong with slaughtering massive numbers of Muslims and Jews simply because they were not Christian? Not to mention the destruction of Constantinople. Christians initiated the Crusades, meaning they invaded Muslim territory unprovoked.

Answer 10

In my humble opinion, there is no evil at all. In ANY religion.

There is only sickness. Evil is something that completely defies logic. Therefore, nobody is capable of defining it AND be consistent with others. Sickness is present in all our minds.

The symptoms of this sickness are things such as greed, intolerance, hate, closed-mindedness and irrational thought.

So my answer is no. However, I have seen evidence that your Bible's author(s) suffered the human sickness, therefore I can only conclude he/they were human. That is my only conclusion.

I cannot conclude that your God is suffering, simply on the evidence in the Bible. If the authors are suffering, what amount of faith can I put in their work?

Christianity, as a religion, is extremely loving, to all people in its nature. It is the followers who base their paths on the suffering, given to them by others, who suffer most.

These people need to be guided by those who know the true nature of Christianity.

I wish you peace on your life's path

Answer 11

Crusades: Christians went into the middles east, which had been at peace for hundreds of years, and slaughtered every woman and child in Jerusalem. One soldier's journal read that the streets ran ankle-deep with blood.

When Salahudin took Jerusalem back, he gave every Christian crusader in the city safe passage back to Europe (With the exception of Reynald de Chatillion, who had murdered Salahudin's sister)...

Inquisition: The church went into Spain and tortured people that they didn't like until they admitted heresy, then executed them

Salem witch trials: Christians burnt innocent women alive, just because their neighbour pointed to a freckle and screamed "WITCH"!

The list goes on and on...