Chrisitianities great crimes

[chequita guevara]

I was watching a program about Imhotep last night, and one of the things that was noted was that almost all knowledge about him had been lost because the Christians had destroyed his temple. So that got me to thinking about all of the other ancient knowledge the Christians destroyed, and that about the people the Christians destroyed.

So, what do you think the worst crimes of Christianity against humanity were, and why?

For me it was a tough choice between anti-Semitism and the destruction of the library at Alexandria. What we could have known about the ancient world had that not happened. But ultimately I had to go with demonizing an entire group of people, the legacies of which are still conflicting us today.

[Ecthy]

who in history has actually not been accused of destroying the library of alexandria?

and the problem are not christians but their damn imperialist institution, the catholic church.

[Ecthy]

just like not communism is evil but the people who pretended to carry it out were.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
who in history has actually not been accused of destroying the library of alexandria?

I'd never heard of any group being blamed but a Christian mob.

and the problem are not christians but their damn imperialist institution, the catholic church.

The Lutherans were even worse in their anti-Semitism than the Catholics, and the Thirty Years War and the Witch burnings were also partially Protestant affairs.

[Ecthy]

then it is christian imperialist church insitutions in general, but definitely not christians.

they're so lovely people

Caesar is said to have destroyed the GL as well, just for the record. and so are many others.

it's like the quesiton "who started the fire in Rome?", with the slight difference that there is actually proof that Rome ever existed

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Caesar is said to have destroyed the GL as well, just for the record. and so are many others.

Caesar could not have done it, since it existed long after he was gone. It happened after Christianity became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. That's a few hundred years after Caesar.

[chequita guevara]

And, would any mod's please fix the thread title. Christianities should be Christianity's.

Thanks.

[Ecthy]

hmm, so now it is a question of when it actually existed as well... I used to think it was some early ancient thing not something AD-esque... hmm... :

[chequita guevara]

The last head of the library was Hypatia, who was killed by a Christian mob in 415 AD. The Library was torched soon afterwards.

[BeBMan]

Re: Chrisitianity's great crimes

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
So, what do you think the worst crimes of Christianity against humanity were, and why?

I think these things were primarily done by humans. Or do we blame any atheist for Stalin?

[Az]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
And, would any mod's please fix the thread title. Christianities should be Christianity's.

Thanks.

that , of course , begs the question: Is chegitz really a DL of Faded Glory?

[Felch]

People seem to realize a base incosistency here, Che. For somebody who is constantly trying to disregard all the horrific crimes committed by socialist, and pseudo-socialist regimes, you seem to be more than happy to blame the crimes of a handful of renegade Christians on the entirety of the faith.

Get it through your head, individual people are responsible for their actions. That goes for Stalin and Mao as much as it does Alexander VI or Cortes.

[BeBMan]

hehe, we come to your crimes later

[Bosh]

There's also myths that the Arabs destroyed the Library of Alexandria.

However, the library was definately done in during anti-Arian riots after some Byzentine Emperor appointed an Arian (an anti-trinitarian heresy) as Patriarch of Alexandria I believe...

[Zoid]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The last head of the library was Hypatia, who was killed by a Christian mob in 415 AD. The Library was torched soon afterwards.

IIRC The library was destroyed when the roman emperor Theodosus burned the temple at Sarapeum in 391 AD.

Oh, and I voted "other" as in "all of the above"