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Yet do people kill each other in the name of the gun? The Bible is not as nice of a place as modern day Christianity would have us think. I like to think we've moved above it in most respects, I mean, who still locks their daughters in the cupboard when they are on their period? Who attacks cities and kills and rapes the entire populous? It is not as heartwarming as sermons would have us believe.
That stuff seems more or less like the catholic-driven crusades. In fact, it turns out that the priests weren't completely honest at the time because when printing presses came out, more people could read and what they read in the Bible was sometimes different from what the priest said he was reading. This sparked the break-off into the protestant branch of christianity, with less bizarre practices than worshiping the saints, having a Pope as their leader regardless of who was King (the U.S. freaked out when the first catholic president took office as there was worry that the pope would control him) and going into barbarianesque wars against opposing religions for the same piece of land over several hundred years.
That stuff seems more or less like the catholic-driven crusades. In fact, it turns out that the priests weren't completely honest at the time because when printing presses came out, more people could read and what they read in the Bible was sometimes different from what the priest said he was reading. This sparked the break-off into the protestant branch of christianity, with less bizarre practices than worshiping the saints, having a Pope as their leader regardless of who was King (the U.S. freaked out when the first catholic president took office as there was worry that the pope would control him) and going into barbarianesque wars against opposing religions for the same piece of land over several hundred years.
