Do you deny that crimes against humanity were done in the name of Christianity or do you apologize for them?

Answer 1

Crimes against humanity have been done in the name of all religions.

Answer 2

I don't apologize for anything because I did not do anything. History is history and that can never be changed. I don't think it is Christianity that has to apologize it is mankind himself. We are some of the most rude, uncaring, selfish creatures on this planet. Wether you are a Christian or Atheist mankind is responsible for the crimes as you say have been committed. We have always looked after our own needs since the beginning of time and we have never really considered who it was a crime toward. Mankind is more about money and greed than helping out the whole of humanity. I don't know if this helped or not but good luck.
Dominus Vobiscum
Don

Answer 3

Most crimes against humanity have been done in the name of religion (whatever sort) by people trying to inflict their particular brand of belief on others who happen believe something different. Christianity has been used as a good excuse to commit loads of crimes in the past - just look at the Crusades, the Gnostics and the Pogroms to name but a few. However, it's all history and I wasn't around then so, No, I don't feel obliged to apologise for any of these things. I can feel sad about them but I can only apologise for crimes I commit myself. Sadly, this religious-hatred nonsense still goes on daily. Ooh, I don't like the guy next door? I know, let's kill him and call it religious fervour - that'll make it all OK and salve our consciences.

Answer 4

Back then, almost everyone hated the Jewish people. I believe during the Great Depression a famous man once said the Depression was caused be the Jews. The Holocaust was the greatest crime against humanity for everything. There is proof that Hitler was a Christian and an Atheists. If he called himself a Christian he was a huge hypocrite. He went back on his beliefs and twisted them, he probably only called himself a Christian to gain power.

Answer 5

Yes these crimes against humanity were done in the name of Christ! During the Dark Ages, more than 150 million people who dared to refuse to pay homage to the papacy were either put to death by burning them at the stake or by torturing them and then letting them starve to death in dark dungeons infested with rats. These were the worse crimes committed against humanity all in the name of Christ!

Do you not know what antechrist means? It means "in the place of Christ." The popes did all these things including their bloody crusades in the name of Christ while maintaining the appearance that God and Christ were sanctioning their atrocious acts. This was the great apostasy predicted by the apostle Paul in the first century. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit, through the apostle Paul, styles the papacy as "the man of sin," "the son of perdition," "the mystery of iniquity." 2 Thess.2:3,4.

Most people have always looked to the coming of antechrist at the end of time when he has been with us all along for many many centuries parading as the representative of Christ on earth while deceiving people as to who he really is, the representative of Christ's arch enemy!

The Bible says that the whole earth has been taken captive by this deception. In 1798 the papacy received a deadly wound at the hand of Napoleon who then took away from her her temporal power. But the book of Revelation tells us that just before the return of Jesus her "deadly wound" will be healed! Rev.13:3. In other words, the papal power will regain her supremacy of the world and history will be repeated. This is the warning contained in the book of Revelation. The papacy will rule the world again but for a very short time. The days of the Inquisition are not over yet.

But this usurped authority will be exposed by the preaching of a message that will lighten the whole earth! Revelation 18:1. It is this message that will open the eyes of the multitudes as to the real identity of this power. Babylon the Great will fall and it will fall because "her sins will have reached unto Heaven" (Rev.18:5) and the very people who had been supporting her will, before it is all over, turn against her and burn her with fire! Rev.17:16. Then Jesus will appear in the clouds of Heaven to deliver His people and take them home!

p.s. "The pacific tone of Rome (since 1798) does not imply a change of heart. She is tolerant where she is helpless... Let the restraints imposed by secular governments be removed and Rome be reinstated in her former power, and there would speedily be a revival of her tyranny and persecution." The Great Controversy, p.564,565.

I have always believed and taught that there are many many true and sincere Christians in the Catholic church and when the message that lightens the whole earth is proclaimed, they will separate from her communion and join the bearers of that message and will be prepared to meet Jesus in the air at His appearing! 1 Thess.4:13-14.

Answer 6

Not all Christians were involved in the "crimes". Some ran to escape, some lost their lives for refusing to get involved. My ancestors ran, escaped to 3 different continents to flee religious persecution even in their own beliefs. So do I apologize for these horrible crimes, no, I and my family refused to be involved, and we stay that way. I won't apologize for Bush's actions, even though my son is in the military. I don't condone it either. This time I don't have to run, I'm in a free democracy that says I can believe what i want. This is finally home for my clan!

Answer 7

I just want to repeat what Ayse said -- crimes against humanity were done in the name of all religions. Now, religion can be a good and helpful thing, so long as it incorporates Humanism into it's doctrine. Humanism is the belief that all human beings have dignity and worth, and an intrinsic ability to determine right from wrong. Religions that respect the value of human beings tend to promote peace, tolerance, and love. Religions that do not respect the value of human beings have the potential, when degenerating into Fundamentalist forms, to promote violence, hatred, intolerance, atrocity, and war. No single religion is the problem here. The problem comes when Fundamentalism combines with misanthropy and a hatred of "non-believers."

So, yes. Crimes against humanity were done in the name of Christianity, just as they were done in the name of Islam, Atheism, Judaism, Hinduism, etc. Let's not demonize any one religion. Let's not even demonize all religions -- rather let us use our faith (or lack thereof) to teach love and acceptance of our fellow human beings, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

Love thy neighbor, as thyself.

Answer 8

I can't apologize for anything I didn't do and I wouldn't expect you to apologize for the crimes the Atheists Stalin and Mao did against humanity.

As we speak Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus are all killing and fighting somewhere in the world, as are seculars, Atheists and Agnostics.

Answer 9

There is no denial that there have been more crimes against humanity done in the name of Christianity and other religions are not without bloody hands...do I apologize for them...I am not Christian...my recognition and my empathy for victims does not equate with shame or guilt

Answer 10

Atheist. I to am what some may consider an atheist. When mention of the crusades, inquisition, Salem witch trials, thr\e religious link to WW2 are mentioned i have been often met with those were different times, which to me is a denial. A fanatic is a fanatic. Anybody who is willing to use a higher power in justification for their actions cannot truly be a follower in any faith.

The base in point would be all those for lack of better terms ingrate homophobic troglodytes who carry signs saying "god hates Fags" I find this most offensive in the sense that one of the reason why I do not believe in god is that i was raised in the church. From my staunch upbringing I have learned that God generally does not take kindly to mankind acting on his behalf. I have found throughout the years tha many of my brethren believe that supply reading the word of god makes them god like. In a sense they have a free pass to perceived moral superiority and they are more able to judge. the amount of hypocrisy was bothersome.