(I also considered Andrew Jackson, a Christian who was responsible for the Trail of Tears, which killed more non-Christian people than the 9/11 attacks, and yet gets to be on our $20 bill.)
(but, you know, iconographical brevity and all that)
Excuse me sir, may I have a moment to talk to you about Jesus?
It really just gets me when people forget about the fucking crusades.
nooooooooooooooooobody remembers the Spanish Inquisition!
Indian Boarding Schools, anyone?
Colonization of the Americas and the genocide of millions of Indigenous people in the name of “Manifest Destiny”?
….or what about the biggest forced migration in human history, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? The enslavement of millions of Africans was all done in the name of Christianity, sooooooooo…..
Oh HEY, what about all those radical Christian bombings that happen, lik ethe Oklahoma City bombing, pictured above, or the bombing of Planned Parenthood and Abortion Clinics?
No one remembers to include the OKC bombing omg
I, a Christian, approve the message
And how about every single fucking time the Christians turned against the Jews, apart from the Inquisition? (Happened a LOT.)
Radical Christians have done more damage a hundred times over than Radical Muslims
Believe me when I say that cultural genocide (apart from actual, literal genocide) characterized Christianity for centuries
Believe me as a Christian that Christianity has a long and fucked up history that continues to harm people today
and here’s the thing that gets ME: we don’t really call the Christian atrocities “acts of terrorism”. Which they are. Like Oklahoma City? TERRORISM. the kid that shot up the African American church in South Carolina and killed nine people? TERRORISM. White, Christian people who attack abortion clinics, who shoot children in their classrooms, who bomb buildings and all the other delightful things radical, crazy people do ARE TERRORISTS. Let’s share our love of that label, shall we?
