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That's changing; the influx of fake 'refugees' there are mking some parts of its cities the rape capitals of Europe.
The way they calculate rape in Sweden makes it the rape capital of Europe.
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It wasn't a 'try', it's from actually studying history from an objective viewpoint rather than as a repository of factoids used for indulging in confirmation bias. and unjustly smearing people and a religion that doesn't deserve to be attacked as dishonestly as it is.
While evil is not confined to religion, religion can and has been a vehicle for evil, and that is worth discussing. Religious people have a vested interest in staying aware of and keeping evil out of their own midst.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
A corporate prayer of confession in the Episcopal church includes the sentence, "We repent of the evil that enslaves us, the evil we have done, and the evil done on our behalf." (Bolding mine.)
Religious people need to not deny the evil that has been done on our behalf, but rather to shine a light on it, fix any damage we can, and be vigilant to make the changes necessary so that it doesn't happen again.
Just as secular atheism. Bad people do bad things. But my atheist neighbor seems nice. I won't assume he's going to try to kill me just because other atheists would. Nor am I suggesting we target all atheists because of the millions of dead from it in the past century.
What happened to being nice, or fair? This forum has really degenerated into a whine and groan session to attack religion. It's pathetic.
Just as secular atheism. Bad people do bad things. But my atheist neighbor seems nice. I won't assume he's going to try to kill me just because other atheists would. Nor am I suggesting we target all atheists because of the millions of dead from it in the past century.
I know, all those straw dead from what that religious atheist pacifist anarchist art critic Stalin and his trouser did.
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What happened to being nice, or fair? This forum has really degenerated into a whine and groan session to attack religion. It's pathetic.
I know, doing actual history; pointing out religious bigotry; pointing out the roots of 9/11, ect; addressing the fact that creationists want to make Islamic and Communist nations more progressive than the west.
Nonsense. Exodus is OT, not NT, for one, and the definition of 'witch' was not the same in the OT as it was in medieval Europe.
Christian beliefs are reformed Judaism, and not pagan in the least. I understand the importance of misrepresentation in most of the hate narratives, though; they're necessary in order to peddle false rubbish about Christians and their history.
The Peanut Gallery can amuse themselves by checking out the absurd numbers of deaths allegedly caused by the assorted Inquisitions, 'witch burnings', wars falsely attributed to it, the Thrity Years War being a big fave for fake news from the 17th century, and they will find the numbers to be nothing but made up Protestant anti0Catholic propaganda and later on fake noise from the usual assortment of deviants and neurotics. The numbers are blatantly ludicrous on their face, which should be an alarm bell right off the bat; if they were factual, the population of Europe would be less than zero, maybe a few Japanese tourists hiking through the forests or something.
I know, you can talk to population experts. The Holocaust happened and even one death was too many, but people who had studied population in Europe say there were not 6 million
Jews in Europe at the time.
I know, you can talk to population experts. The Holocaust happened and even one death was too many, but people who had studied population in Europe say there were not 6 million
Jews in Europe at the time.
You are forgetting Hitler invaded none European countries.
Russia for example had over 3 million Jews, over 2 million were killed in the holocaust.
Poland had 3 million alone. Most were killed in the holocaust.
Germany had over 0.5 million in 1933 if you want to do a rough calculation yourself. But the above two countries alone make up 6 million Jews.
You are forgetting Hitler invaded none European countries.
Russia for example had over 3 million Jews, over 2 million were killed in the holocaust.
Poland had 3 million alone. Most were killed in the holocaust.
Germany had over 0.5 million in 1933 if you want to do a rough calculation yourself. But the above two countries alone make up 6 million Jews.
I know, you can talk to population experts. The Holocaust happened and even one death was too many, but people who had studied population in Europe say there were not 6 million
Jews in Europe at the time.
Are you seriously suggesting that Hitler did not kill 6 million Jews?
Protestants are just as guilty of evil practices as are Catholics.
Since the mods have made it clear that it is not permissible to single out the evil practices of Catholics, let's level the playing field by focusing on Protestant practices.
Wikipedia
Witch Hunts
The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a major issue again and peaking in the 17th century. What had previously been a belief that some people possessed supernatural abilities (which were sometimes used to protect the people) now became a sign of a pact between the people with supernatural abilities and the devil. To justify the killings, Protestant Christianity and its proxy secular institutions deemed witchcraft as being associated to wild Satanic ritual parties in which there was much naked dancing and cannibalistic infanticide.
The classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America took place in the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 100,000 executions. Including illegal and summary executions it is estimated 200,000 or more "witches" were tortured, burnt or hanged in the Western world from 1500 until around 1800.
Evil is not a demonic individual, or a force in the world. Evil is to be found in the horrible things that ordinary people find justification in doing to each other.
Can we just get address the white elephant in the room...
ORGANIZED RELIGION is just as guilty as any denomination of evil practices..
I know, you can talk to population experts. The Holocaust happened and even one death was too many, but people who had studied population in Europe say there were not 6 million
Jews in Europe at the time.
So what is your point of arguing how many died? Since it does not matter if it was ONE, let alone 6 million??
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Of course, this behavior is not confined to any one group. The difference is, priest take a vow of celibacy. So, not only do they betray their vows, but then go on to violate those who trust them. Double whammy.
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