Dismal theology-related tweet of the day

This is a good example of saying something that is “sort of” true in order to lie. Yes, it is “sort of” true that none of the majority-Christian nations routinely persecute minority religions. Donohue would have us believe, however, that it is because Christians are better people and all those other religions attract human scum; that is a lie.

Christianity has a long, bloody, and well-documented history of abusing minority religions. In Salem the Godly hanged witches. The KKK was a Baptist and Methodist undertaking, and routinely attacked Jews and Catholics. Once upon a time, mobs of devout Christians seized proselytizing Jehovah’s Witnesses going door-to-door and beat them senseless — and then they were arrested for disturbing the peace and denied medical care. (One famous case was just a few miles from the Bush family’s summer home in Maine, at Kennebunkport). This was at the same time that Christian Germany was trying to exterminate Jews, incidentally.

Christianity did not reform itself. After all, how is it possible that the keepers of the Eternal Truth could be, or need to be, reformed? The Enlightenment (barely) civilized Christianity from the outside — and that is why such as Albert the Pious relentlessly disparage the Enlightenment. And why Bill Donohue deserves to be a figure of public ridicule.

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