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In Reply to: Religions and Spirituality, Who is right? posted by Jennifer Warrick on February 04, 1999 at 18:05:49:

:As I read this post, I just want to add my two cents. To the relation of religion's rigid rules and restrictions that leads to discrimination and intolerance my applies to certain minority of crackpots in the religion. There are many people I know that follow the Catholic religion's rules and they aren't intolerant and discrimatory, like myself.
I agree that the Spanish conquistadors were wrong to kill and pillage in order to convert people to Christianity, but to blame Christianity because of what the conquistadors have done is wrong. Christianity is based on peace and love one another. These conquistadors abused Chistianity in order to get gold and silver. If the decendents of the Aztecs and the Incas who converted to the Catholic religion, why don't they renounce their faith and quit the church, since they have known about these atrocities?
The Jewish holocaust was the creation of Hitler, not just because they worshiped the wrong way. Right after World War I, Germany was broke and inflation was rampant. Hitler seen that the Jewish people were bankers and business people and had a lot of money. He concluded that all Jews were wealthy, but in reality not all were. So Hitler blamed the Jewish people for the German peoples' problems because he thought they were affluent and not him.
During Pope John Paul II's tenure, he has apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church the use of the Inquisition, and the persecution of Galileo. To end, I have to say don't blame religion for the atrocities, blame the people who use religion for their own selfish gains.

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: :As I read this post, I just want to add my two cents. To the relation of religion's rigid rules and restrictions that leads to discrimination and intolerance my applies to certain minority of crackpots in the religion. There are many people I know that follow the Catholic religion's rules and they aren't intolerant and discrimatory, like myself. : I agree that the Spanish conquistadors were wrong to kill and pillage in order to convert people to Christianity, but to blame Christianity because of what the conquistadors have done is wrong. Christianity is based on peace and love one another. These conquistadors abused Chistianity in order to get gold and silver. If the decendents of the Aztecs and the Incas who converted to the Catholic religion, why don't they renounce their faith and quit the church, since they have known about these atrocities? : The Jewish holocaust was the creation of Hitler, not just because they worshiped the wrong way. Right after World War I, Germany was broke and inflation was rampant. Hitler seen that the Jewish people were bankers and business people and had a lot of money. He concluded that all Jews were wealthy, but in reality not all were. So Hitler blamed the Jewish people for the German peoples' problems because he thought they were affluent and not him. : During Pope John Paul II's tenure, he has apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church the use of the Inquisition, and the persecution of Galileo. To end, I have to say don't blame religion for the atrocities, blame the people who use religion for their own selfish gains. : : :

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