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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Not even close, even if you combined all of their victims
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"Who's more evil" isn't really a math problem where you tally up the bodies. The intent of the people perpetrating it matters. But even if it were, I don't actually know that this is true... it actually might be close.
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and who do you think it was that started the anti semitism that culminated in Hitler and the holocaust? it isnt random coincidence that the route for nazis out of europe and into south america was run by the Catholic Church in France, Spain and into the Catholic dominated countries of Paraguay and Argentina.
The sad reality is the Church was fine with the killing of the 'Christ Killers' (Jews to you and me) throughout its history
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This is sort of right, but also simplistic. The whole "Hitler's Pope" thing has some fair points, but much of that book's content has been pretty effectively rebutted since it was published. There's clearly a link between the Catholic Church and antisemitism throughout the centuries, though. That's one of many things they have to answer for and won't.
If you do want a fairly exhaustive (though as he puts it, "summary") list of things the Church has to answer for though, Hitchens does a pretty good job of it right at the beginning of this.