One of the virtues of Christianity is undoubtedly that it put an end to human sacrifice in Europe.
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Well if you don't count all the persecution, torture, and murder, then michiel is right on!
The "History? What's that?" award perhaps?
I am reminded of Arnald Almaric, Abbot of Cliteaux, papal apointee of the Albigensian Crusade of 1209 sent to destroy the heretical Cathari Christian sect in southern France. At the siege of the city of Beziers, the Abbot did not concern himself with distinguishing between heretics and the innocent. His famous quote is "Kill all; God will know his own." The Abbot claimed that 15,000 people were killed at Bezeirs: some estimates go as high as 50,000.
The Albigensian Crusade lasted 20 years, gave rise to the Inquisition, and resulted in an estimated ONE MILLION dead.
So don't hand me this bucket of shit about Christianity putting an end to human sacrifice in Europe.
I don't see the problem with this. Christianity pretty much *did* put an end to human sacrifice in Europe. That it invented or continued a whole lot of other ways of killing people in the name of religion is, technically, besides the point.
TRUE, if you choose to forget the "conversion" of Europe, the Spanish Inquistion, the Hugonaut Wars, the Hussian Wars, the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the Reformation, the Cromwellian wars, the Crusades, WW1, WW2........
Christianity just changed the human sacrifice of the pagans into new ways of killing like Inquisitions and witch burnings, not to mention killing the people who practiced human sacrifice, not because they practiced human sacrifice, but because they weren't Christian. I suspect the true end of human sacrifice came because of the Enlightenment.
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