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Didn't Christians mass murder heretics by burning them at the stake?

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No.

The Spanish Inquisition executed fewer than 4,000 people in 350 years. Hardly mass murder. Stalin, Mao, and other atheistic liberal heroes would regard 4,000 deaths [b]in one day[/b] as evidence of insufficient revolutionary zeal on the part of their executioners. [/quote]I bet they admired the Christians who managed to wipe out whole tribes all over the Americas. [/quote]

Bzzzzt. The Church advocated - and actually practiced - kindness towards the indigenous people.

Try again, Christianophobe.[/quote]Oh, and what was the religion of the people who wiped out the tribes......ehhhhh, Buddhist?!  (Although the Buddhists have been responsible for repression in other countries, eg, Burma)  There were 50 to 100 million people in the Americas before the Christian Europeans showed up.  The Spanish Christians killed lots of people.  Even more died from illnesses the Christians brought with them, like smallpox.  So you might argue that the Christians didn't directly wipe out the American Indian tribes but they certainly did nothing to stop it.  Kind of like those Christians in Germany and Poland and elsewhere who did nothing to stop the Holocaust -- which was very convenient for them.

By the way, I'm not a Christianphobe.  I admire people (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, whomever) who are committed to their religious practice.  I don't admire people who are bigoted towards others who are different from them and who help bring about conditions that lead to others' downfall.  And I don't think it's wise for Christians to get into a pissing match about which religion has led to more death and disease -- because Christians would most likely be right up there among the leaders in killing and repression.[/quote]

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