If someone beat your father and you retaliated by beating that man, you would be wrong, but no one would accuse you of starting the fight or being the most responsible.
But this is exactly how many people treat Christian history.
The Crusades for example.
How many times have you heard the Christian Crusades brought up without mentioning they were a response to violent Muslim aggression? Muslims had previously captured the Holy Land, destroyed churches and killed Christians who refused to convert to Islam.
"The Crusades as an historical phenomenon were a reaction to events resulting from over 450 years of previous jihad campaigns." (source)
Aspects of the Crusades were terribly wrong, but they should be put in historical context.
Aspects of the Crusades were terribly wrong, but they should be put in historical context.
In addition, people have to reach back thousands of years for this example of Christian injustice, but Muslim and atheistic atrocities are present throughout history.
For example, consider the evil done by atheism: Atheistic Communism terrorized and oppressed half of Europe for 40 years. Stalin alone killed 20-60 million.(1)
It's dishonest to take things our of context. Christianity has built more schools and hospitals, helped more needy and outcast, and brought hope to more people than atheism ever will. The good far outweighs the bad.
Let's honestly recognize sins committed in the name of Christ, but let's put it in proper perspective.
For example, consider the evil done by atheism: Atheistic Communism terrorized and oppressed half of Europe for 40 years. Stalin alone killed 20-60 million.(1)
It's dishonest to take things our of context. Christianity has built more schools and hospitals, helped more needy and outcast, and brought hope to more people than atheism ever will. The good far outweighs the bad.
Let's honestly recognize sins committed in the name of Christ, but let's put it in proper perspective.
And let's understand the reasons behind this prejudice against Christianity. Christ predicted it in John 15:18-25. The true and living God will always be an object of scorn by the unsaved world.
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See Yeah, Well What About the Crusades? and The Truth About the Crusades and You Thought the Crusades Were Evil.
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(1) This is an estimate, but so much of Stalin's evil practices were kept secret that it's hard to be accurate.
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All the inquisitions, as well meaning as they where when they bagan, where a very dark moves in the church.
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