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 Vietnam
In 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 cat
On 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 Massacres
In 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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