| The Flaw of Atonement Serbs claim they are going directly to Heaven, this is based 
                  on the teachings of Paul who wrote Jesus's blood cleansed all 
                  past, present, and future sins [even as they kill and rape 
                  innocent people on Easter]. We witnessed over the centuries the negative effects of this theory of atonement 
                  as we witness it's ungodly effects today. With these Christians under the Assumption that they are 
                  saved on faith alone regardless of their horrid actions, in the 
                  case of the serbs [rape, genocide, looting], you have atrocities 
                  repeating themselves through out history, with it's root in the 
                  Christian atonement theory; Victims of the Christian 
                  atonement 
                Theory                 Listed are only events that solely occurred on command of 
                      church authorities or were committed in the name of 
                      Christianity. (List incomplete)                                    
                 Mission
                                                
                
                     Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, 
                        unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. [DO30]  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. [WW223]  Battle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered. [DO235]
                       15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages 
                        plundered by Knights of the Order. Victims unknown. [DO30]
                       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. 
                        [SH99, 225]
 Crusades (1095-1291)
 
                  
                    
                    First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41]
                    Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 
                      6/12/96 thousands. [WW23] 9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), 
                      thousands respectively. [WW25-27] Until Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 
                      castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30] after 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 
                      10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & 
                      children) killed. [WW32-35]Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in 
                      [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through 
                      their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of 
                      Chartres. [EC60]
Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because 
                      of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the 
                      enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert 
                      Aquensis. [WW36] Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, 
                      muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40](In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's 
                      temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading 
                      ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily 
                      and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, 
                      to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude")
The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote: "It was 
                      impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without 
                      horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very 
                      ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not 
                      alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs 
                      strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who 
                      looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the 
                      victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an 
                      ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is 
                      reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten 
                      thousand infidels perished." [TG79] Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the 
                      following summer in all of palestine the air was polluted by 
                      the stench of decomposition". One million victims of the first 
                      crusade alone. [WW41] Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered 
                      "in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ". [WW45] Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of 
                      victims unknown, numerous thousands, many of them Christian. 
                      [WW141-148] Rest of Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akkon 
                      1291 probably 20 million victims (in the Holy land and 
                      Arab/Turkish areas alone). [WW224] Note: All figures according to 
                      contemporary (Christian) chroniclers. Heretics
 
                  
                    Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish 
                      Priscillianus and six followers, were beheaded for heresy in 
                      Trier/Germany [DO26] 
                    Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough 
                      to practice birth control (and thus not as irresponsible as 
                      faithful Catholics) was exterminated in huge campaigns all 
                      over the Roman empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous 
                      thousands of victims. [NC] 
                    Albigensians: the first Crusade intended to slay other 
                      Christians. [DO29]The Albigensians (cathars = Christians allegedly
                      that have all rarely sucked) 
                      viewed themselves as good Christians, but would not accept 
                      roman Catholic rule, and taxes, and prohibition of birth 
                      control. [NC]
 Begin of violence: on command of pope Innocent III (greatest 
                      single pre-nazi mass murderer) in 1209. Bezi�rs (today France) 
                      7/22/1209 destroyed, all the inhabitants were 
                      slaughtered. Victims (including Catholics refusing to turn 
                      over their heretic neighbours and friends) 20,000-70,000. 
                      [WW179-181]
                    Carcassonne 8/15/1209, thousands slain. Other cities 
                      followed. [WW181] 
                    subsequent 20 years of war until nearly all Cathars 
                      (probably half the population of the Languedoc, today southern 
                      France) were exterminated. [WW183] 
                    After the war ended (1229) the Inquisition was founded 
                      1232 to search and destroy surviving/hiding heretics. Last 
                      Cathars burned at the stake 1324. [WW183] 
                    Estimated one million victims (cathar heresy alone), 
                      [WW183] 
                    Other heresies: Waldensians, Paulikians, Runcarians, 
                      Josephites, and many others. Most of these sects exterminated, 
                      (I believe some Waldensians live today, yet they had to endure 
                      600 years of persecution) I estimate at least hundred thousand 
                      victims (including the Spanish inquisition but excluding 
                      victims in the New World). 
                    Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada alone allegedly responsible 
                      for 10,220 burnings. [DO28] 
                    John Huss, a critic of papal infallibility and 
                      indulgences, was burned at the stake in 1415. [LI475-522] 
                    University professor B.Hubmaier burned at the stake 1538 
                      in Vienna. [DO59] 
                    Giordano Bruno, Dominican monk, after having been 
                      incarcerated for seven years, was burned at the stake for 
                      heresy on the Campo dei Fiori (Rome) on 2/17/1600. 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. [WV]  Religious Wars                
 
                  
                      
                      15th century: Crusades against Hussites, thousands slain. 
                        [DO30] 1538 pope Paul III declared Crusade against apostate 
                        England and all English as slaves of Church (fortunately had 
                        not power to go into action). [DO31] 1568 Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered extermination of 
                      3 million rebels in (then Spanish) Netherlands. Thousands were 
                      actually slain. [DO31] 1572 In France about 20,000 Huguenots were killed on 
                      command of pope Pius V. Until 17th century 200,000 flee. 
                      [DO31] 17th century: Catholics slay Gaspard de Coligny, a 
                      Protestant leader. After murdering him, the Catholic mob 
                      mutilated his body, "cutting off his head, his hands, and his 
                      genitals... and then dumped him into the river [...but] then, 
                      deciding that it was not worthy of being food for the fish, 
                      they hauled it out again [... and] dragged what was left ... 
                      to the gallows of Montfaulcon, 'to be meat and carrion for 
                      maggots and crows'." [SH191] 17th century: Catholics sack the city of Magdeburg/Germany: 
                      roughly 30,000 Protestants were slain. "In a single church 
                      fifty women were found beheaded," reported poet Friedrich 
                      Schiller, "and infants still sucking the breasts of their 
                      lifeless mothers." [SH191] 17th century 30 years' war (Catholic vs. Protestant): at 
                      least 40% of population decimated, mostly in Germany. 
                      [DO31-32] Jews                
 
                  
                      
                      Already in the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were 
                        burned by Christians. Number of Jews slain unknown. In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue 
                        was destroyed on command of bishop Innocentius of Dertona in 
                        Northern Italy. The first synagogue known to have been burned 
                        down was near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of 
                        Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450] 17. Council of Toledo 694: Jews were enslaved, their 
                      property confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized. 
                      [DA454] The Bishop of Limoges (France) in 1010 had the cities' 
                      Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, expelled or 
                      killed. [DA453] First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered 1096, maybe 
                      12.000 total. Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 
                      persons), Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, 
                      Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and 
                      others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech) 
                      [EJ] Second Crusade: 1147. Several hundred Jews were slain in 
                      Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). 
                      [WW57] Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked 1189/90. 
                      [DO40] Fulda/Germany 1235: 34 Jewish men and women slain. [DO41]
                      1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, 
                      Northampton, Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated. 
                      [DO41] 1290 in Bohemian (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed. 
                      [DO41] 1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze 
                      reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland. [DO41] 1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France 
                      (two thousand) burned. [DO41] 1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, 
                      mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed 
                      than Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of 
                      Christians). [DO42] 1389 In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42] 1391 Seville's Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 
                      4,000 were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their 
                      identification was made easy by the brightly colored "badges 
                      of shame" that all jews above the age of ten had been forced 
                      to wear. 1492: In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New 
                      World, more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many 
                      died on their way: 6/30/1492. [MM470-476] 1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews 
                      were slain. [DO43]    
                  (I feel sick ...) this goes on and on, century after 
                    century, right into the kilns of Auschwitz. Native Peoples
 
                  
                    
                    Beginning with Columbus (a former slave trader and 
                      would-be Holy Crusader) the conquest of the New World began, 
                      as usual understood as a means to propagate Christianity. Within hours of landfall on the first inhabited island he 
                      encountered in the Caribbean, Columbus seized and carried off 
                      six native people who, he said, "ought to be good servants ... 
                      [and] would easily be made Christians, because it seemed to me 
                      that they belonged to no religion." [SH200]While Columbus described the Indians as "idolators" and 
                      "slaves, as many as [the Crown] shall order," his pal Michele 
                      de Cuneo, Italian nobleman, referred to the natives as 
                      "beasts" because "they eat when they are hungry," and made 
                      love "openly whenever they feel like it." [SH204-205]
On every island he set foot on, Columbus planted a cross, 
                      "making the declarations that are required" - the 
                        requerimiento - to claim the ownership for his Catholic 
                      patrons in Spain. And "nobody objected." If the Indians 
                      refused or delayed their acceptance (or understanding), the 
                        requerimiento continued: 
                      "I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall 
                      powerfully enter in your country and shall make war 
                      against you ... and shall subject you to the yoke and 
                      obedience of the Church ... and shall do you all mischief 
                      that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to 
                      receive their lord and resist and contradict him." [SH66]
 
                  
                   
                    Likewise in the words of John Winthrop, first governor of 
                      Massachusetts Bay Colony: "justifieinge the undertakeres of 
                      the intended Plantation in New England ... to carry the 
                      Gospell into those parts of the world, ... and to raise a 
                      Bulworke against the kingdome of the Ante-Christ." [SH235]
                    In average two thirds of the native population were killed 
                      by colonist-imported smallpox before violence began. This was 
                      a great sign of "the marvelous goodness and providence of God" 
                      to the Christians of course, e.g. the Governor of the 
                      Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, 
                      they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath 
                      cleared our title to what we possess." [SH109,238]
                    On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native 
                      population (Arawak), a rather harmless and happy people living 
                      on an island of abundant natural resources, a literal 
                      paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204] 
                    The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, 
                      enslavement and spanish raids. 
                    As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died that 
                      they could not be counted, all through the land the Indians 
                      lay dead everywhere. The stench was very great and 
                      pestiferous." [SH69] 
                    The indian chief Hatuey fled with his people but was 
                      captured and burned alive. As "they were tying him to the 
                      stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart 
                      so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into 
                      hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians 
                      went, he would rather go to hell." [SH70] 
                    What happened to his people was described by an 
                      eyewitness:"The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd 
                      cruelties ... They built a long gibbet, long enough for the 
                      toes to touch the ground to prevent strangling, and hanged 
                      thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour 
                      and the twelve Apostles... then, straw was wrapped around 
                      their torn bodies and they were burned alive." [SH72]
 Or, on another occasion:
 "The Spaniards cut off the arm of one, the leg or hip of 
                      another, and from some their heads at one stroke, like 
                      butchers cutting up beef and mutton for market. Six hundred, 
                      including the cacique, were thus slain like brute 
                      beasts...Vasco [de Balboa] ordered forty of them to be torn to 
                      pieces by dogs." [SH83]
                    The "island's population of about eight million people at 
                      the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492 already had declined by 
                      a third to a half before the year 1496 was out." Eventually 
                      all the island's natives were exterminated, so the Spaniards 
                      were "forced" to import slaves from other caribbean islands, 
                      who soon suffered the same fate. Thus "the Caribbean's 
                      millions of native people [were] thereby effectively 
                      liquidated in barely a quarter of a century". [SH72-73] "In 
                      less than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an 
                      entire culture of millions of people, thousands of years 
                      resident in their homeland, had been exterminated." [SH75]
                    
                    "And then the Spanish turned their attention to the 
                      mainland of Mexico and Central America. The slaughter had 
                      barely begun. The exquisite city of Tenochtitl�n [Mexico city] 
                      was next." [SH75] 
                    Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto and hundreds of other spanish 
                      conquistadors likewise sacked southern and mesoamerican 
                      civilizations in the name of Christ (De Soto also sacked 
                      Florida). 
                    "When the 16th century ended, some 200,000 Spaniards had 
                      moved to the Americas. By that time probably more than 
                      60,000,000 natives were dead." [SH95]
 Of course no different were the founders of what today is the 
                US of Amerikkka.
 
                  
                    Although none of the settlers would have survived winter 
                      without native help, they soon set out to expel and 
                      exterminate the Indians. Warfare among (north American) 
                      Indians was rather harmless, in comparison to European 
                      standards, and was meant to avenge insults rather than conquer 
                      land. In the words of some of the pilgrim fathers: "Their 
                      Warres are farre less bloudy...", so that there usually was 
                      "no great slawter of nether side". Indeed, "they might fight 
                      seven yeares and not kill seven men." What is more, the 
                      Indians usually spared women and children. [SH111] In the spring of 1612 some English colonists found life 
                      among the (generally friendly and generous) natives attractive 
                      enough to leave Jamestown - "being idell ... did runne away 
                      unto the Indyans," - to live among them (that probably solved 
                      a sex problem)."Governor Thomas Dale had them hunted down and executed: 'Some 
                      he apointed (sic) to be hanged Some burned Some to be broken 
                      upon wheles, others to be staked and some shott to deathe'." 
                      [SH105] Of course these elegant measures were restricted for 
                      fellow englishmen: "This was the treatment for those who 
                      wished to act like Indians. For those who had no choice in the 
                      matter, because they were the native people of Virginia" 
                      methods were different: "when an Indian was accused by an 
                      Englishman of stealing a cup and failing to return it, the 
                      English response was to attack the natives in force, burning 
                      the entire community" down. [SH105]
On the territory that is now Massachusetts the founding 
                      fathers of the colonies were committing genocide, in what has 
                      become known as the "Peqout War". The killers were New England 
                      Puritan Christians, refugees from persecution in their own 
                      home country England. When however, a dead colonist was found, apparently killed 
                      by Narragansett Indians, the Puritan colonists wanted revenge. 
                      Despite the Indian chief's pledge they attacked.Somehow they seem to have lost the idea of what they were 
                      after, because when they were greeted by Pequot Indians 
                      (long-time foes of the Narragansetts) the troops nevertheless 
                      made war on the Pequots and burned their villages.
 The puritan commander-in-charge John Mason after one massacre 
                      wrote: "And indeed such a dreadful Terror did the Almighty let 
                      fall upon their Spirits, that they would fly from us and run 
                      into the very Flames, where many of them perished ... God was 
                      above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his 
                      People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven ... Thus did the 
                      Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead 
                      Bodies": men, women, children. [SH113-114]
So "the Lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the 
                      hinder Parts, and to give us their land for an inheritance". 
                      [SH111]. Because of his readers' assumed knowledge of Deuteronomy, 
                      there was no need for Mason to quote the words that 
                      immediately follow:"Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But thou shalt 
                      utterly destroy them..." (Deut 20)
Mason's comrade Underhill recalled how "great and doleful 
                      was the bloody sight to the view of the young soldiers" yet 
                      reassured his readers that "sometimes the Scripture declareth 
                      women and children must perish with their parents". [SH114]
                    Other Indians were killed in successful plots of 
                      poisoning. The colonists even had dogs especially trained to 
                      kill Indians and to devour children from their mothers 
                      breasts, in the colonists' own words: "blood Hounds to draw 
                      after them, and Mastives to seaze them." (This was inspired by 
                      spanish methods of the time)In this way they continued until the extermination of the 
                      Pequots was near. [SH107-119]
The surviving handful of Indians "were parceled out to 
                      live in servitude. John Endicott and his pastor wrote to the 
                      governor asking for 'a share' of the captives, specifically 'a 
                      young woman or girle and a boy if you thinke good'." [SH115]
                    Other tribes were to follow the same path. Comment the Christian exterminators: "God's Will, which 
                      will at last give us cause to say: How Great is His Goodness! 
                      and How Great is his Beauty!""Thus doth the Lord Jesus make them to bow before him, and to 
                      lick the Dust!" [TA]
Like today, lying was OK to Christians then. "Peace 
                      treaties were signed with every intention to violate them: 
                      when the Indians 'grow secure uppon (sic) the treatie', 
                      advised the Council of State in Virginia, 'we shall have the 
                      better Advantage both to surprise them, & cutt downe theire 
                      Corne'." [SH106] In 1624 sixty heavily armed Englishmen cut down 800 
                      defenseless Indian men, women and children. [SH107] In a single massacre in "King Philip's War" of 1675 and 
                      1676 some "600 Indians were destroyed. A delighted Cotton 
                      Mather, revered pastor of the Second Church in Boston, later 
                      referred to the slaughter as a 'barbeque'." [SH115] To summarize: Before the arrival of the English, the 
                      western Abenaki people in New Hampshire and Vermont had 
                      numbered 12,000. Less than half a century later about 250 
                      remained alive - a destruction rate of 98%. The Pocumtuck 
                      people had numbered more than 18,000, fifty years later they 
                      were down to 920 - 95% destroyed. The Quiripi-Unquachog people 
                      had numbered about 30,000, fifty years later they were down to 
                      1500 - 95% destroyed. The Massachusetts people had numbered at 
                      least 44,000, fifty years later barely 6000 were alive - 81% 
                      destroyed. [SH118] These are only a few examples of the 
                      multitude of tribes living before Christian colonists set 
                      their foot on the New World. All this was before the smallpox 
                      epidemics of 1677 and 1678 had occurred. And the carnage was 
                      not over then. All the above was only the beginning of the European 
                      colonization, it was before the frontier age actually had 
                      begun. A total of maybe more than 150 million Indians (of both 
                      Americas) were destroyed in the period of 1500 to 1900, as an 
                      average two thirds by smallpox and other epidemics, that 
                      leaves some 50 million killed directly by violence, bad 
                      treatment and slavery. In many countries, such as Brazil, and Guatemala, this 
                      continues even today. 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'." [SH241] 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 
                      ..." [SH131]
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'." [SH244] 20th Century Church Atrocities                
                  
                    Catholic extermination camps
                      Surpisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World 
                      War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. 
                      In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous 
                      extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their 
                      dictator Ante Paveli�, a practising Catholic and regular 
                      visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps 
                      exclusively for children!In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a 
                      Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian serbians (and a 
                      substantial number of Jews) were murdered. Like the Nazis the 
                      Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the 
                      Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). 
                      But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to 
                      death, the number of them being estimated between 300,000 and 
                      600,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were 
                      Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to 
                      induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdient der SS", 
                      watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not 
                      listen). The pope knew about these events and did nothing to 
                      prevent them. [MV]
Catholic terror in VietnamIn 1954 Vietnamese freedom fighters - the Viet Minh - had 
                      finally defeated the French colonial government in North 
                      Vietnam, which by then had been supported by U.S. funds 
                      amounting to more than $2 billion. Although the victorious 
                      assured religious freedom to all (most non-buddhist Vietnamese 
                      were Catholics), due to huge anticommunist propaganda 
                      campaigns many Catholics fled to the South. With the help of 
                      Catholic lobbies in Washington and Cardinal Spellman, the 
                      Vatican's spokesman in U.S. politics, who later on would call 
                      the U.S. forces in Vietnam "Soldiers of Christ", a scheme was 
                      concocted to prevent democratic elections which could have 
                      brought the communist Viet Minh to power in the South as well, 
                      and the fanatic Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem was made president of 
                      South Vietnam. [MW16ff]
 Diem saw to it that U.S. aid, food, technical and general 
                      assistance was given to Catholics alone, Buddhist individuals 
                      and villages were ignored or had to pay for the food aids 
                      which were given to Catholics for free. The only religious 
                      denomination to be supported was Roman Catholicism.
 The Vietnamese McCarthyism turned even more vicious than its 
                      American counterpart. By 1956 Diem promulgated a presidential 
                      order which read:
 "Individuals considered dangerous to the national 
                      defense and common security may be confined by executive 
                      order, to a concentration camp."
 Supposedly to fight communism, thousands of buddhist 
                    protesters and monks were imprisoned in "detention camps." 
                    Out of protest dozens of buddhist teachers - male and female 
                    - and monks poured gasoline over themselves and burned 
                    themselves. (Note that Buddhists burned themselves: in 
                    comparison Christians tend to burn others). Meanwhile 
                    some of the prison camps, which in the meantime were filled 
                    with Protestant and even Catholic protesters as well, had 
                    turned into no-nonsense death camps. It is estimated that 
                    during this period of terror (1955-1960) at least 24,000 
                    were wounded - mostly in street riots - 80,000 people were 
                    executed, 275,000 had been detained or tortured, and about 
                    500,000 were sent to concentration or detention camps. 
                    [MW76-89].To support this kind of government in the next decade 
                    thousands of American GI's lost their life.
 
                  
                   
                    Christianity kills the catOn July 1, 1976, Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student of a 
                      teachers college in Germany, died: she starved herself to 
                      death. For months she had been haunted by demonic visions and 
                      apparitions, and for months two Catholic priests - with 
                      explicit approval of the Catholic bishop of W�rzburg - 
                      additionally pestered and tormented the wretched girl with 
                      their exorcist rituals. After her death in Klingenberg 
                      hospital - her body was littered with wounds - her parents, 
                      both of them fanatical Catholics, were sentenced to six months 
                      for not having called for medical help. None of the priests 
                      was punished: on the contrary, Miss Michel's grave today is a 
                      place of pilgrimage and worship for a number of similarly 
                      faithful Catholics (in the seventeenth century W�rzburg was 
                      notorious for it's extensive witch burnings).
 This case is only the tip of an iceberg of such evil 
                      superstition and has become known only because of its lethal 
                      outcome. [SP80]
Rwanda MassacresIn 1994 in the small african country of Rwanda in just a few 
                      months several hundred thousand civilians were butchered, 
                      apparently a conflict of the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
 For quite some time I heard only rumours about Catholic clergy 
                      actively involved in the 1994 Rwanda massacres. Odd denials of 
                      involvement were printed in Catholic church journals, before 
                      even anybody had openly accused members of the church.
 Then, 10/10/96, in the newscast of S2 Aktuell, Germany - a 
                      station not at all critical to Christianity - the following 
                      was stated:
 "Anglican as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of 
                  having actively participated in murders. Especially the conduct 
                  of a certain Catholic priest has been occupying the public mind 
                  in Rwanda's capital Kigali for months. He was minister of the 
                  church of the Holy Family and allegedly murdered Tutsis in the 
                  most brutal manner. He is reported to have accompanied marauding 
                  Hutu militia with a gun in his cowl. In fact there has been a 
                  bloody slaughter of Tutsis seeking shelter in his parish. Even 
                  two years after the massacres many Catholics refuse to set foot 
                  on the threshold of their church, because to them the 
                  participation of a certain part of the clergy in the slaughter 
                  is well established. There is almost no church in Rwanda that 
                  has not seen refugees - women, children, old - being brutally 
                  butchered facing the crucifix.According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis and 
                  turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia.
 In connection with these events again and again two Benedictine 
                  nuns are mentioned, both of whom have fled into a Belgian 
                  monastery in the meantime to avoid prosecution. According to 
                  survivors one of them called the Hutu killers and led them to 
                  several thousand people who had sought shelter in her monastery. 
                  By force the doomed were driven out of the churchyard and were 
                  murdered in the presence of the nun right in front of the gate. 
                  The other one is also reported to have directly cooperated with 
                  the murderers of the Hutu militia. In her case again witnesses 
                  report that she watched the slaughtering of people in cold blood 
                  and without showing response. She is even accused of having 
                  procured some petrol used by the killers to set on fire and burn 
                  their victims alive..." [S2]
 
 References:
                  
                    [DA] K.Deschner, Abermals kr�hte der Hahn, Stuttgart 
                      1962. [DO] K.Deschner, Opus Diaboli, Reinbek 1987. [EC] P.W.Edbury, Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff Univ. 
                      Press 1985. [EJ] S.Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Madison 
                      1977. [LI] H.C.Lea, The Inquisition of the Middle Ages, New 
                      York 1961. [MM] M.Margolis, A.Marx, A History of the Jewish People.
                    [MV] A.Manhattan, The Vatican's Holocaust, Springfield 
                      1986.See also V.Dedijer, The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, 
                      Buffalo NY, 1992.
[NC] J.T.Noonan, Contraception: A History of its Treatment 
                      by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists, 
                      Cambridge/Mass., 1992. [S2] Newscast of S2 Aktuell, Germany, 10/10/96, 12:00. [SH] D.Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University 
                      Press 1992. [SP] German news magazine Der Spiegel, no.49, 12/2/1996.
                    [TA] A True Account of the Most Considerable Occurrences that 
                      have Hapned in the Warre Between the English and the Indians 
                      in New England, London 1676. [TG] F.Turner, Beyond Geography, New York 1980. [WW] H.Wollschl�ger: Die bewaffneten Wallfahrten gen 
                      Jerusalem, Z�rich 1973.(This is in german and what is worse, it is out of print. But 
                      it is the best I ever read about crusades and includes a full 
                      list of original medieval Christian chroniclers' writings).
[WV] Estimates on the number of executed witches:
                      
                        N.Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by 
                          the Great Witch Hunt, Frogmore 1976, 253. R.H.Robbins, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and 
                          Demonology, New York 1959, 180. J.B.Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, 
                          Ithaca/NY 1972, 39. H.Zwetsloot, Friedrich Spee und die Hexenprozesse, 
                  Trier 1954, 56. 
 We have today the Christian serbs, yesterday we had the 
                  Christian nazis, before that the Christian colonists, the 
                  Chrsitian crusaders, on and on, all believed their cold blooded 
                  murders will not effect their entrance directly into heaven. I believe these Christians never read the Bible, I believe 
                  they only followed false teachings of their church without ever 
                  reading what Christ who was sent by God stated regarding 
                  Salvation, which in summary states; "If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) Here we see these Christians are disgusted with Jesus; "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and 
                  a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not 
                  evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to 
                  him the other also." (Matthew 5:38-39) These Christians do not turn the other cheek to their enemies 
                  [innocent young girls] , instead the these Christians [today the 
                  serbs] grab these girls by the cheeks and _rape_ them, and steal 
                  their innocence. Jesus offered a kind method of atonement by stating; "forgive, and ye shall be forgiven" (Luke 6:37) and "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is 
                  in heaven forgive your trespasses." (Mark 11:25-26) rather than the Christians obeying the advise of Jesus, for 
                  every one Christian, Ten Innocent Children are killed by the by 
                  these church followers. These Christians obviously do the opposite of what the 
                  Messiah taught; "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse 
                  you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which 
                  despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the 
                  children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his 
                  sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the 
                  just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:43-45) These Christians give the true meaning of [anti-Christ] fore 
                  they do the reverse of what Jesus teaches . These Christian , are dragging Christianity to a new low in 
                  the History of Christian Atrocities. These Christians Hate Jesus more than any group of people 
                  world wide because they openly, publicly and proudly spit on the 
                  commandments of Jesus; " Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, 
                  Thou shalt not steal" (Matthew 19:18) In conclusion, Christ whispered gently; "If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) unfortunately, due to Paul who wrote 75% of the current 
                  Gospel, not Jesus, the current Gospel can and is debated by over 
                  a billion to mean you can be saved by faith alone, despite the 
                  rape and murder you commit, historically showing the flaw of the 
                  Christian [Paulian] atonement theory. Peace                
                  
                                  
                
                    
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