Christians, what are the top three atrocities ever committed in the name of God?

Question

You folks should find it at least a little bit intriguing that you can't answer this, yet all give the same non-answer. You really should.

thanks to some of you for real answers. The rest of you, you're habitual line-steppers!

Answer 1

1. The election of George W. Bush
2. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. The total lack of compasion for the poor and downtrodden

Answer 2

What, only three? Here are mine....

(1) The Inquisitions. More heinous than religious wars because it was waged on civilians by church-state hybrids that claimed absolute bone-crushing authority.

(2) The taking of Palestine by the Hebrews as recounted in the Torah and the history texts following it, such as Joshua. During that time the Jews slaughtered wholesale everyone in their path and made the kids they didn't kill into concubines and slaves.

(3) September 11th. While the body count was lower than many other religious atrocities, I think the nature of the crime and the movement which it represents make this one actually more heinous.

Answer 3

actual i think of there are greater outright atrocities devoted interior the call of starvation, sickness and poverty than interior the call of God. no longer that faith does not have plenty to answer for. Pedophile protection. Hindering condom distribution in Africa. mom Theresa tormenting the dying. (nicely, crap. i individually wasn't attempting to take a shot at Catholics, this is in simple terms the way it got here out. in line with possibility as a results of fact Catholicism is so enormous and newsworthy.)

Answer 4

First: Pride of Religion (Religious Hubris), which is the father and mother of all other atrocities done in God's name.
Second: Usurpation of God's exclusive right of judgment, which is religious hubris turned into acts upon others.
Third: Dominionism and its forebears, which is the institutionalization of religious hubris.

Everything else is merely details of time and place. The above three are the true atrocities. Eliminate them, and the details would never have occurred.

Answer 5

#1: Muslim expansion by the sword
#2: Christian crusades for the holy land
#3: European colonialism and missionary work

we would be in a VERY different state had these three major things not happened in the world

Answer 6

1. The Holocaust (I know that this was primarily Hitler's own agenda but didn't he say that God felt as thoughJews were unworthy?)
2. The World Trade Center Bombings
3. The protestors outside of American Servicemembers funerals.

I know that there are more but these were the first ones to come to mind.

Answer 7

Nothing was committed in the name of God. All the wars and what have you were done by mankind because they were doing what they thought was right. Pride and greed is what has caused all the atrocities in this world

Answer 8

They are all outlined in this document:

"Memory and Reconciliation, the Church and the Faults of the Past"

Read my John Paul II, year 2000, 50pages long
written by Cardinal Ratzinger, at the time head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith.

Answer 9

The proportion of indigenous Caribbean population destroyed by the Spanish in a single generation is, no matter how the figures are twisted, far greater than the seventy-five percent of European Jews usually said to have been exterminated by the Nazis.

North American tribes were decimated, humiliated, raped and murdered also, three-to-four hundred years later.

The settlers believed in 'manifest destiny' by which they imagined themselves enjoying a divinely ordained right to possess all native property, including everything west of the Mississippi.

This was coupled to what has been termed a "rhetoric of extermination" by which governmental and corporate leaders sought to shape public sentiment to embrace the eradication of American Indians. The professed goal of this physical reduction of "inferior" indigenous populations was to open up land for "superior" Euro-American "pioneers." One outcome of this dual articulation was a series of general massacres perpetrated by the United States military.

Centuries of abhorrent anti-semitism from Christians was also the grandfather of the Jewish holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis.

In the Papal States, which existed until 1870, Jews were required to live only in specified neighborhoods called ghettos. Only Jews were taxed to support state boarding schools for Jewish converts to Christianity. It was illegal to convert from Christianity to Judaism. Sometimes Jews were baptized involuntarily, and, even when such baptisms were illegal, forced to practice the Christian religion. In many such cases the state separated them from their families. See Edgardo Mortara for an account of one of the most widely publicized instances of acrimony between Catholics and Jews in the Papal States in the second half of the 19th century.

"In the 19th and (before the end of the second World War) 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good anti-Semitism" and "bad anti-Semitism". The "bad" kind promoted hatred of Jews simply because they were Jews. This was considered un-Christian because the Christian message was that all of humanity could become a Christian. The "good" kind criticized alleged Jewish conspiracies to control newspapers, banks, and other institutions, to care only about accumulation of wealth, etc. Many Catholic bishops wrote articles criticizing Jews on such grounds, and, when accused of promoting hatred of Jews, would remind people that they condemned the "bad" kind of anti-Semitism. A detailed account is found in historian David Kertzer's book The Popes Against the Jews."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_antisemitism

Answer 10

That's an easy one. Here's a hard one. Name one atrocity committed in the name of atheism.