It Would Take a Miracle
Sam Aurelius Milam III
In
391, Christians burned many of the documents in the library at Alexandria,
which was probably the most important body of recorded knowledge in existence
at the time. They claimed that the documents contained pagan heresies.
In
782, several thousand Saxons, under the control of Charlemagne, were murdered
at his orders because they refused to convert to Christianity.
Beginning
in 1095, Christians on Crusades killed thousands of Muslims. Although
it might be an exaggeration, it's been said that during Christian raids
of some of the Muslim towns, Muslim blood ran knee deep in the streets.
Even today, almost a thousand years after the Crusades began, there are
still Christian soldiers fighting in Muslim lands.
Beginning
in the 1100s, the various institutions of the Inquisition tortured or killed
thousands of people who were accused of heresy.
During
the time of the Cathar suppression, from some time in the 1100s to some
time in the 1300s, Christians burned thousands of Cathars at the stake.
They claimed that the Cathars were heretics.
In
1349, in Switzerland, Germany, and France, Christians slaughtered thousands
of Jews. The Christians claimed that the Jews were the source of
the Black Death.
In
the 1500s, Catholic priests, traveling with the conquistadors, destroyed
most of the Mayan codices, an irreplaceable body of recorded knowledge.
As in Alexandria, they did it because they believed that the documents
contained pagan heresies.
From
about 1450 to about 1750, during the witch-hunts, Christians tortured or
murdered an estimated 200,000 alleged witches.
There
were an estimated ten million indigenous people living on this continent
when the Christians began to arrive here from Europe. The Christians
regarded the natives as heathens. Native cultures and languages were
suppressed. Native religions were outlawed. People who practiced
those religions were murdered. Native children were forcibly taken
from their parents and brainwashed in schools established for that specific
purpose. After 350 years of such treatment, and worse, the size of
the native population had been reduced to less than 4% of its previous
number. It was Charlemagne's options all over again, but far worse.
Even the Mongol invasion of Europe seems like a trifling event by comparison.
So far as I'm aware, the Christian invasion of this continent was the closest
thing to an actually successful genocide that has ever happened, in the
known history of human society.
Have
Christians changed their ways? The only difference nowadays, at least
in this country, and most of the time, is that Christians don't do the
dirty deeds themselves. A single example will suffice to illustrate
the point. Why is polygamy illegal? It's illegal because Christians
believe that it's a sin. Today, Christians don't burn such people
at the stake. Instead, they get the legislatures, the police, the
courts, and the prisons to do their dirty work for them. Then, they
can wash their hands of it, sit safely at home, and pretend to be loving,
tolerant, and forgiving.
So
long as Christians use the government to impose their dogma, and to punish
violators, they haven't changed. They're still imposing their beliefs
by force, and punishing heretics. That behavior constitutes a violation
of the separation of church and state, which means both keeping the government
out of religion and keeping religion out of the government. In addition
to that, Christians are violating the idea of freedom of religion.
If freedom of religion is to exist at all, then it must necessarily include
freedom from religion. If Christians impose their beliefs
onto people who don't agree with them, via government or otherwise, then
there isn't any freedom of religion. As Heinlein noted in Glory
Road, "Culturologists state a 'law' of religious freedom which they
say is invariant: Religious freedom in a cultural complex is inversely
proportional to the strength of the strongest religion." So long
as Christians use the government to enforce their beliefs, there is neither
separation of church and state, nor freedom of religion.
Will
Christians ever change their evil ways? Regardless of their occasional
rhetoric of love and tolerance, the legacy of their past suggests to me
that the answer is, probably not.
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