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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many appalling campaigns have been undertaken throughout western history in the name of Christianity.
A few choice examples -
Crusades
The Inquisition
The support of the slave trade
Oh, and that thing that happened to Galileo

Christians need to get off their high horse when picking and choosing their cause celebre.

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Slavery has always existed and still exists today in very large numbers. Christians were among the first to end it at significant scale.

Universities and modern science are a result of the Christian church.

The crusades were a response to Muslim colonization and conquest.

Educate yourself.[/quote]

The one who needs an education is you.

You can’t really claim Christians ended slavery without mentioning that Christians started and sustained the transatlantic slave trade for centuries using the Bible as their primary legal defense. If it takes 1,800 years for a religion to decide ‘maybe kidnapping people is bad,’ that’s not exactly a moral head start. Abolition happened because of a shift toward secular humanism and Enlightenment values that forced the Church to finally change its mind.

The Church didn’t 'invent' science. It preserved some Greek and Roman texts, while it also occasionally burned or banned them. And let’s not forget the Islamic Golden Age, which gave us algebra, optics, and the foundations of modern medicine while Europe was still in the Dark Ages. If the Church was so pro-science, why did it take until 1992 for them to officially admit Galileo was right about the Earth moving?

While the First Crusade was indeed framed as a response to the Byzantine Emperor’s plea for help against Seljuk advances, the subsequent centuries of Crusades involved complex political ambitions, the horrific sack of Christian Constantinople (1204), and the persecution of Jewish communities in Europe. To frame them solely as a defensive response overlooks the territorial and papal power struggles that fueled the era.

You can now count yourself as having been schooled.[/quote]

So because one new trade route was created for a practice that had been in existence for millennia, they are responsible.

No one buys that lame as& argument.

Read a history book and get back to us.[/quote]

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