Christians Have Killed,
Too:
We Christians can be lead astray and must remember that Jesus never asked that
anyone be killed for the sake of His name!
I thank my friend & Sunday School teacher, David Prosser, for putting
details into a 19 April 2007 e-mail to me (contained in the code of this page) as the basis for the following
outline. As stated on the linked page about man's
inhumanity
to man, we modern Christians are hugely embarrassed to learn that misguided
groups (were they just cultural or nominal Christians or true Christians ?)
identified as "Christian", on the other
hand, have done the following in the name of Christ (or in search of gold or
other primary motives such as governmental control of populations?).
Additionally, overall, how much damage do Christians do for the cause of Christ when
they condemn & criticize other branches or denominations of Christianity [here]? As
my friend, Rev. Gary Frazier pointed out in May 2007, why must modern Christians
of the USA publicly backbite and almost curse each other over issues BEYOND the
questions of: (1) does your church worship God through Jesus?...(2) does your
church seek to lift up the name of Jesus as Savior of the World?...and (3) is
The Word of God the ultimate tool for education about the Faith? Here is the
outline of killings by Christians (but was the political force behind the actions
Christian?) with the numbers of most offered by David Prosser:
 | In Europe, Middle East, & Northern Africa:
 | anti-witch, anti-pagan campaigns AD408-1708 (example, Emperor Theodosius who
even had children killed for playing with pieces of destroyed pagan
statues): 15-30 million killed. |
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| In South & Middle America:
| conquistador efforts from AD late 1400s on, included in the above anti-pagan killings. |
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| North America, in what would become the USA:
| Jamestown, Pequot, King Philip's war: maybe as high as 50,000,000. |
| anti-Mormon killings as they migrated to Utah. |
| Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado in 1864: 600 Indians (mostly women
& children) under leadership of Methodist minister, Col. John
Chivington ("I long to be wading in their gore"). |
| 1860s Hawaii: 90% of indigenous population wiped out by combination of
fighting and disease brought there by Christian missionaries &
soldiers. |
| Hitler's concentration camps in Germany & Poland: 3.4-5.7 million
"cleansed" by his belief...as a Christian...that God wanted
non-Christians wiped out. And camps in Croatia lead by Catholic, Ante
Pavelic (most notorious was Jasenovac camp, headed by a Franciscan Friar
killing Serbian orthodox Christians & Jews); the Catholic Ustasha
burned his stabbed and injured victims alive in kilns. Franciscan friars
did most of the killings of between 300-600,000. |
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| In "third world" countries:
| the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem became President of South Vietnam: mostly
against Buddhist protesters & monks (1955-60): 80,000 executed,
24,000 wounded, 275,000 detained or tortured & 500,000 to
concentration camps. |
| two Roman Catholic priests sentenced to death in 1998 for roles in the
genocide of 1994 of about a million Tutsis & moderate Hutus. |
| Christians turn on Muslims in Nigeria in Feb. 2006 & some 80
killed in vengeance related to Muslim attacks on Christians after the
Netherlands cartoon published. |
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