Christian Terrorism - Victims of the Christian Faith

Mission

Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded.

Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany.

Battle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered.

16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde". Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage.


Witches

from the beginning of Christianity to 1484 probably more than several thousand.
in the era of witch hunting (1484-1750) according to modern scholars several hundred thousand (about 80% female) burned at the stake or hanged.


More Glorious events in US history

Reverend Solomon Stoddard, one of New England's most esteemed religious leaders, in "1703 formally proposed to the Massachusetts Governor that the colonists be given the financial wherewithal to purchase and train large packs of dogs 'to hunt Indians as they do bears'."

Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former Methodist minister and still elder in the church ("I long to be wading in gore") had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.
From an eye-witness account: "There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterwards killed ..."

By the 1860s, "in Hawai'i the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage that by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more, and he declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian population was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the amputation of diseased members of the body'."


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Just seeking to balance the picture.
You haven't even started on Africa and South America smile

And as I mentioned on the other blog, Srebrenica.

But either way, you are wasting your time unfortunately, Soc.
Some people can never see what they don't want to see.

Evil is done by all kinds of people, for many reasons.
What about the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians killed during the senseless invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Syria? How is a drone firing a Hellfire missile at a wedding party not an act of terror?
Sounds like somebody very recently had a "Eureka" moment about big institutional religion.
"And Iraq?

What is the excuse for that?
You can't blame 9/11 - Iraq wasn't involved
You can't blame WMDs as that has long since been discredited as a lie."

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It’s big of you to defend the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein like that and dismiss the hundreds of thousands of innocent people in his own country that he murdered and gassed to death including the Kurds. However, you missed a few important points.

1. Saddam Hussein stated himself publicly that Iraq had WMD AND that he was planning to use them.

2. We KNOW Iraq had chemical weapons because they USED them on multiple occasions.

3. Virtually every major intelligence agency in the world CONFIRMED that Iraq had WMD.

4. Saddam Hussein invaded other countries of the Middle East threatening not only their countries, but the interests and national security of other countries in that region and all over the world.

5. Saddam Hussein threatened to attack the United States and other countries.

6. There was a coalition of 5 countries that took part in the military action against Iraq.
Molly and Ken,

You guys looks to see it in clear realitythumbs up thumbs up thumbs up

And Socrates....YOU REALLY GOT MY RESPECT NOW.....good work, to bring in a perfect blog of facts......what very few have courage and strength to put in herethumbs up thumbs up thumbs up handshake
Hey Socthumbs up thumbs up thumbs up
There are no sides, no groups, nor gods involved in murder.

Just murderers.
Bekard• How these people live this life.Is beyond the Legal System. Moses sure picked the Flock...
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As a Muslim living in a country of the largest Muslims on Earth, with all my heart I thank you all for being balanced and unbiased. bouquet teddybear
Socrates,
all is real facts, what you are coming up with.....but still it is only a drop in the ocean of all the horrible cruelty, that is done in the name of Christianity, for thousands of years back.....I have dig into it by my self and sometimes I had to just put all the information on the side, as I felt like trowing up.
To be honest, I can not understand at all, how anybody can turn out to be, like the the very Devil it self......but to do it in the name of the Holy, it is so crazy, that I don't have words or naming for that anymore. doh doh doh
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