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140 Million Dead? So What! Christianity's STILL A RELIGION OF PEACE!

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1420 - Hussite Wars - First organized wars of Christians (Catholic) killing Christians (Protestants) - Death Toll: 80,000

1470 - Start of the Spanish Inquisition - Death Toll: 350,000

1492 - Colonization of the Americas Christianity vs. Indigenous beliefs Unconverted "heathens" are persecuted for the next 500 years

1540 - Persecution of the Waldensians - Death Toll: 900,000

1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - French Protestant Huegenots murdered in one day - Death Toll: 70,000

1631 - The Thirty Years War - Ultimate Death Toll: aprox.11,500,000

1648 - Cossak rebellion against Jews in Poland - Death Toll; 100,000

1648 - Cromwell's Puritan Revolution in England and Ireland - Massacres of thousands of Catholics - Death Toll: 868,000

1850 - Taiping Rebellion - "Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace" is founded by Christian heretic Hong Xiuqan who preached that he was the brother of The Messiah - Death Toll: 20,000,000

1913 - The "Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction" is entered into the Congressional Record

1940 - FBI raids the offices of Christian Front. J. Edgar Hoover stated that it was the intent of the Front to murder Jews, communists and at least 12 congressmen - The Christian Front was founded by Father Edward Coughlin, "The Father of Hate Radio"

1993 - Magdalene Laundry Scandal erupts in Ireland - Brutal conditions and treatment in the "fallen women" Magdalene Laundries run by Catholic nuns are exposed - The identification of 130 bodies in a mass grave are still coming to light

1995 - The Lord's Resistance Army massacres villagers in Uganda - Death toll: 750

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As we stated above, this information was given not to insult good Christians., but to give a perspective to the reader when Christofascists such as Rick Warren, Pat Robertson and Rod Parsley tell us that Christianity has always been a religion of peace. Islamophobia is now creeping into tour lives. Christian "leaders" are calling for serious ramifications for Muslims. They are telling each of us non-Muslims that Islam is an intrinsically violent religion. And they are doing so in order to paint themselves as supporters of Christianity - a "peaceful" religion they think is beleguered with anti-Christian sentiment.

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