cabal

Cabal said onJanuary 28, 2004 01:58 PM
That thing scares the shit out of me.

Catholicism started as more of a government than a religion. They controlled the world at one point. In the name of "Christianity" ie. Catholic church, the crusades devestated several cultures and killed many. Damn King Richard. I almost view "church" as a dirty word.
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the reason why i said that the word "church" needs to be evaluated is because while your statemement is more certainly true, and i *was* taking it into consideration, it is also true that while *the church* was used as a justification for the conquistadores (i.e. cortes in mexico, etc) to murder a ridiculous number of poor, almost defenseless indigenous people while simultaneously enslaving africans, the same people from the same church, namely the dominican friars, (i.e. jesuits, franciscans) were fighting for the rights and freedom of the indigenous. These were the men that said that the indians really DID have souls and reason, and as such, were people that needed to be respected and could not be enslaved or murdered. So, it seems to me that there are two aspects of church, or at least a definate split of mentality and action between two groups that saw themselves under the same heading of the catholic church.
i think that's it.
in other news, that hand thing IS totally scarry. hah.