quartz-poker:

I love whenever someone goes “Christians have never been violent”, because I can point to literally every single Crusade, including some which were against OTHER CHRISTIANS. Oh, remember that time Venice sacked Constantinople, which was a Christian city? Remember the French crusades against other French people for not being the right kind of Christian, or for backing the wrong Pope when more than one guy claimed the title?

I can also point to the Catholics smacking down every other early form of Christianity. I can point to the Catholics wiping out entire sects of Christianity and several other small religions that evolved around the same time. I can point to the Catholic vs Protestant conflict and the many wars it started, up to and including the low intensity conflict known as The Troubles in Northern Ireland, which only ended IN THE NINETEEN NINETIES.

I can point to the fact that right now, there are Christian people in the United States of America who think waging war in the Middle East is God’s will for America. Because they think killing Muslims is holy.

I can point to the fact that right now, there are Christian nutjobs who think bombing abortion clinics is God’s will.

 If Islam is responsible for all the crazies it has to put up with, then Christianity is just as bad.

However, I prefer to take the view that neither religion is inherently bad and both have just been abused by nutjobs, the same way anything else would be abused. The very moment it ever becomes possible to abuse atheism for personal gain, I guarantee someone will do it, and then atheism will look bad too because of its crazy followers. It’s humans that are the common factor.

Don’t forget the witch hunts, the holocaust, the spanish inquisition, republicans and jonestown