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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: Biblical Culture
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2021, 03:39:37 pm »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_burned_as_heretics

That explains up to the 1500s.  What about lately ?

hmmmm….  How much time have you got?

The Catholic Church helped Nazis escape Germany after the war.  Killing 6 million Jews wasn’t bad enough for the church not to help these poor fellows being harangued by the liberators.
https://www.dw.com/en/the-ratlines-what-did-the-vatican-know-about-nazi-escape-routes/a-52555068

Southern US Christians lynching black people was a religious ritual for many.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/02/jim-crow-souths-lynching-of-blacks-and-christianity-the-terror-inflicted-by-whites-was-considered-a-religious-ritual.html

If you want something more local, just look at the treatment of indigenous people by the churches here in Canada. An act of attempted genocide. 

The fight against gay marriage was completely on religious grounds.
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