Christian ferocity

1.Early Christians gave us a belief in a future life, miracles and other assinine notions. As soon as it became the official religion of Rome the church unleased a reign of terror against pagans
and heretics. Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria had a learned Greek scholar murdered and her body burned. And we made this monster a saint? Is there no limit to the stupid things humans are capable of?

2. Under Elizabeth 1, church attendance was compulsory. In Calvin's Geneva, a citizen was beheaded for writing obscene verses. Card players and adulterers were whipped through the streets. A refugee scholar, Servetus, was seized and burned at the stake. Hundreds of witches were put to death.
The Catholic Church believed in witches. The bishop of Wurtzburg burned 800 in a single year. 400 were put to death atToulose. As many as 1,000 witches a year were burned in Italy.

3. world wide there have been some 100,000 differing religions, ranging from the placid commual rites of the Pueblo Indians, to t
the bloody human-sacrifices of the Aztecs, and from the paranoid black magic of Melanesia to the guilty soul-searching of Protestants