Our press does not tend to show the graphic pictures of bloody death, as these.
But the blood and terror has flowed in the "Christian" world. For example, Oklahoma City which McVeigh said was in part avenging the Branch Davidians at Waco. Dead was dead including children.
The lynchings in the south, by "Christian" cross burners, may have not cut the heads off, but the effect was the same. The pictures of a man hanging does not have the impact of the severed head.
The burning of women as witches, the genocide against native American "savages", or the bloody atrocities in the Civil War.
The WWII Holocaust itself was done by Germans who thought God took their side, who wanted to eliminate Jews and "Godless communists."
LITERALLY vaporizing entire villages from the air in SE Asia, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, even near the Laos border in Northeast Thailand, "without prejudice" meaning mothers, kids, babies, grandmothers, everyone in the vicinity.
Some right wing talk radio and plenty of online forums imply a modern "Crusade" against Islam -- "nuke Mecca" and "nuke Iraq" was often heard after 9/11 and other events.
Child molesting is not as horrible as murder, but it is a significant piece of tragic Catholic history as well.
On the brighter side, on a related topic, one must also recall that our primarily Deist (many historians make a case for agnostic or atheist) founders did not favor revenge for British atrocities (in the name of the Church of England) at the end of the Revolutionary war. The founders of the U.S. were rather upset at the history of religious oppression and the cycle of death it brought.. Our roots were in The Enlightenment, The Age of Reason, our constitution and values are about laws of humans, made by humans, does not ever mention God or Christ. |
