Christianity is Inherently Violent
2010 January 10
Spend two minutes reading Thom Stark’s fantastic post Christianity is Inherently Violent. Here’s a teaser:
All Christians are white supremacists. They’re also all Spanish inquisitors. They all believe the world is six thousand years old. They all believe that women have no right to teach theology to men. They all believe that the institution of slavery is ordained by God and, within appropriate limits, is perfectly just. All Christians hate fags and believe that if this were a Christian society, homosexuality would be a capital offense. All Christians support abortion clinic bombing. Whenever an abortion clinic is bombed, Christian communities pretend to condemn it but you can see the pride just seeping through their pretense.
Read the rest here. While you’re there, browse through the rest of his great blog.
Totally unrelated comment – my apologies. Do you own the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church? Is it worth buying? Thanks.
Yep I own a copy. It is available online for free of course. I think the index is more pages than the actual text of the book… But it’s a nice reference book to have.
Yes… it’s a great book to own. Once you start reading it, though, you’ll be pretty sad! You’ll wonder how many people in the US Catholic Church—including clergy—have read it.
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This post reminds me of a dinner-table convo I just had with my family (all devout Presbyterians). We were discussing Shintoism and how it is mainly purely cultural, not religious (a Japanese person will go the shrine to get their new baby or car blessed). It is mere tradition, not some radical creed to a different way of life. I pointed out that that does not sound much different than American Christianity. My mother remarked, “yes, those C and E’rs! (xmas and easter)
I was referring to ourselves.