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Talk:Essay: Social Effects of the Theory of Evolution (view source)
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== Flawed Logic ==
== Flawed Logic ==
Following the arguments made within this article, all articles focusing on Christianity should be lined with pictures and references to those who have appropriated the tenets of Christianity for evil and despicable ends. There shouldn't be a shortage. [[User:Reeperbahn|Reeperbahn]] 20:06, 13 September 2008 (EDT)
Following the arguments made within this article, all articles focusing on Christianity should be lined with pictures and references to those who have appropriated the tenets of Christianity for evil and despicable ends. There shouldn't be a shortage. [[User:Reeperbahn|Reeperbahn]] 20:06, 13 September 2008 (EDT)
:re: alleged no shortage: I see you did not name one. The irony is delicious. [[User:Conservative|conservative]] 20:49, 13 September 2008 (EDT)
::Happy to start the list: Pope Innocent III (see above). Vile by present standards and despised by many people in his own day (early 13th century). He extended the control of the Catholic church over previously non-Catholic or pagan parts of Europe but the people who became Catholicised (or Christianised) didn't exactly have much choice in the matter. Not to mention his leadership role in the destruction of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, the centre of the Christian world at the time, a fact which was very inconvenient for a pope who aspired to rule the Christian world from Rome.
::Others please continue. The list could be very long indeed. Many people involved in the First Crusade (who merrily destroyed several Greek towns before massacring the Muslim, Jewish AND Christian inhabitants of Jerusalem), almost anyone involved in the Fourth Crusade (see above), the Teutonic Knights (forced conversion of Prussia), the Spanish Inquisition (you should know this one), several Byzantine emperors (for whom narrow-minded religious bigotry was a perfectly good reason for massacring thousands of their subjects)... [[User:KennyMac|KennyMac]] 19:11, 14 September 2008 (EDT)