This man, Father Molinari, preached a religion that has caused more death and suffering than any group in history. A willing culprit in genocide, slavery, bigotry, and misogyny. I say if their blood is spilled on the altar to their hate and fear then I won’t mourn them.
Edit: Gather around, ye Christians, and tell me you aren’t all bad. Surely the charity the church gives isn’t a direct result if the massacres they’ve waged in God’s name.
I don’t know about this man in particular but you are mixing a whole religion up with colonialism.
some christians were persecuted and even genocided, see e. g. armenian christians, or balkan christians under the ottoman empire. Other christians in LatAm explicitly resisted imperialism and built peoples organizations and got targetted and killed for it by the CIA, look up liberation theology.
You have a very western view on christianity and your reddit-tier edgy atheism is not looking at the material causes but just blindly blaming religion. Youre putting the carriage before the horse, it wasn’t religion that caused colonialism, but colonialism twisted christianity to fit its needs.
This man, Father Molinari, preached a religion that has caused more death and suffering than any group in history. A willing culprit in genocide, slavery, bigotry, and misogyny. I say if their blood is spilled on the altar to their hate and fear then I won’t mourn them.
Edit: Gather around, ye Christians, and tell me you aren’t all bad. Surely the charity the church gives isn’t a direct result if the massacres they’ve waged in God’s name.
I don’t know about this man in particular but you are mixing a whole religion up with colonialism.
some christians were persecuted and even genocided, see e. g. armenian christians, or balkan christians under the ottoman empire. Other christians in LatAm explicitly resisted imperialism and built peoples organizations and got targetted and killed for it by the CIA, look up liberation theology.
You have a very western view on christianity and your reddit-tier edgy atheism is not looking at the material causes but just blindly blaming religion. Youre putting the carriage before the horse, it wasn’t religion that caused colonialism, but colonialism twisted christianity to fit its needs.
Oh, yes, sorry, I wasn’t taking into account “eastern” Christianity… Those were the good ones. They weren’t reading from the same book.
What about christians like Bonhoeffer and other members of the “confessing church”?
Ok, so that means watching him die wouldn’t be traumatic for the people in the congregation?
No more traumatic than the families that have suffered at the hands of Catholics have endured.