Holy Horrors: The Holocaust
For century after century after century, the Christian church had designated the people to be despised: the religious believers called Jews.
Holy Horrors: The Crusades
Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade in 1095 to wrest the Holy Land from infidels. "Deus Vult" (God wills it) became the rallying cry.
Holy Horrors: A Grim Pattern
When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity.
Holy Horrors: Killing Heretics
In 1208, Pope Innocent III declared a major crusade to destroy the Albigenses. Some 20,000 knights and peasants answered the call.
Holy Horrors: The Inquisition
The victim was required not only to confess that he was a heretic, but also to accuse his children, wife, friends, and others as fellow…
Holy Horrors: Witch-Hunts
During the 1400s, the Inquisition shifted its focus toward witchcraft, and the next 300 years witnessed a bizarre orgy of religious delusion.
Holy Horrors: Religious slaughter through the centuries
Without religion, divisions would blur with passing generations; children would adapt to new times, mingle, intermarry, forget ancient wounds.
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