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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
And it was Christians who tortured and executed women for "witchcraft" based on unsupported claims by their neighbors in order to grab their property, Christians who slaughtered the residents of this land with warfare and disease, stole their homes, desecrated their holy sites, Christians who enslaved the residents of Africa and brought them here to treat like animals, Christians who insisted that a husband can't possibly rape his wife, Christians who declared that skin color decided who you could marry (and later, that gender decided it), and Christians who created Sundown Towns.
By all means, let's make sure Western Civ covers the impact of Christianity on history.
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And if you wrote a textbook with this information (all of it true), but neglected to mention that the same crimes had been committed all over the world in the name of different religions and other cultures, you'd be writing exactly the kind of textbook that the Texas board of education is trying to avoid.
Christians don't have a monopoly on bigotry, racism and hatred any more than they have a monopoly on compassion.