Lets Play A Game! Name that Religious Atrocity!

[ynotbegoodtoall]

Feel free to make your list as long as you like!

[Vixentrox]

Burning of Joan of Arc...upity woman playing like she was a man.

[Merlinfmct87]

Burning of the library of Alexandria.(Think that's enough to prove any point right there)

 

Merlin

[Brutal Brian]

The Crusades.

[Vixentrox]

Salem Witch trials

[white_raven23]

Missionary work among indigenous peoples.

[crazy-tiger]

Bygracealonethrufaith...

[Amethyst]

All the murders that have been committed in god's name.

[ynotbegoodtoall]

Has anybody ever heard of the Children's Crusades. Do a google search on this one, you will be amazed.

[Vixentrox]

Yeah, one of the lesser known but certainly one of the most tragic.

[Clergicide]

The first major monothesitic movement, Zoroastrianism, without whom the others never would have been.

[spamandham]

The enslavement of mankind.

[Thurisaz]

The infamous thirty-year war. Among 12 out of 16 million people in what is Germany today were slaughtered or died of the dire consequences of the war (famine et cetera), all for the oh-so-important question of how to properly celebrate mass.

 

And while we're at it, let's expand from "Salem witch trials" to "the burning times" as a whole.

[Fweethawt]

Here's one that I had saved in an e-mail.

 

 

1990: 'Praying Rapist' murders 68 year old woman after raping her. Man repeats Church periapts whilst committing his horrible sex attacks on aged women in South East London.

 

1990: British & American Catholic church officials shuttle around a priest accused of child sexual abuse who is evading arrest. Priest eventually extradited and sentenced to 6 years for sexually abusing 4 boys.

 

1990: Christian Evangelists rioted with police when they tried to question a member of the congregation in Kensington. A police van was set upon, a sergeant was dragged out and punched in the face and another officer was spat on whilst the mob tried to turn the van over.

1990: Bishop tries to hush-up Goat in Churchyard sex scandal of divorcee and Vicar by persuading her to destroy erotic love letters. Vicar had seduced the divorcee after calling on her to give advice on treating an ache in her shoulder.

1990: Slough Christian Social Worker sentenced to jail at Old Bailey for taking indecent photographs of a mentally retarded 8 year old boy. His job was to look after handicaped children to give parents a break.

 

1990: A Bradford man described in mitigation by his church leader as a 'devoted practising Christian' made menacing telephone calls to young mothers threatening to throw acid in their children's faces, stab and burn them.

 

1990: Vicar's wife runs off with 14 year old choirboy. Vicar claims the lad is a "son of satan" . "This unholy union is the work of the devil"

 

1990: Cathedral Sidesman jailed for life for murdering his mistress and her new lover. Clive Crawshaw, well connected with leading clergymen in Exeter, poured petrol over his victims and set them alight.

 

1990: Pentecostal Minister D Stenhouse from Solihull sent to jail after admitting five charges of indecently assaulting boys aged 12 to 15.

 

1990: Priest Domenico Bernard, 65 arrested for molesting women who came to his home for distressed females.

 

1990: Priest James Morrow found guilty of attacking pregnant woman at abortion clinic. Morrow had appeared in court four times in the previous year for similar protests.

1990: Archbishop Penney resigns following report of him having ignored or denied reports of child sex abuse by Catholic Priests. Since 1988 TWENTY of his priests have been convicted of sexually abusing boys.

 

1990: Catholic Priest Anton Mowat 45, pleaded guilty to sexually molesting four altar boys between ages 12 and 14. Sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in May for 2 charges of child molestation , two of cruelty to children, two of enticing boys for indecent purposes and four charges of battery.

 

1990: Priest Kenneth Arkley, pleaded guilty at Old Bailey to soliciting homeless young 'runaways' for sex at railway stations and repetitive homosexual acts with underage youth in his love nest.

 

1990: Rev Gordon Haggarty, TV vicar and celebrity jailed for lewd and libidinous practices at Edinburgh Crown Court. He bound, blindfolded and gagged girls in his care aged from 8 to 12 years, then took photographs of them.

 

1990: Nineteen members of Roman Catholic lay order charged with 149 counts of physical and sexual abuse at a boys training school (now closed down)

 

1990: Jehovah's Witness Thomas Rosserr, 38, pleaded guilty to two sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl at Bible Classes and was sentenced to 21 months at Teeside Crown Court.

 

1990: Prison Chaplain replies to sexual contact mag advert and is blackmailed after writing pornographic letters about his erotic fantasies.

 

1990: Priests of a wealthy Roman Catholic break-away sect are given emergency hospital treatment after self-castration. Followers of the Christian sect are also reported to insert rings through their genitals as penitence or to prevent sexual temptation.

 

1990: Rev Stephen Horkin pays rent-boy to sadistically abuse him whilst dressing up as the devil.

 

1990: Methodist Reverend Paul Flowers, vice--chairman of Rochdale social services committee which had control over the Rochdale Satanic Abuse Cases is discovered to have a conviction for indecency during the height of the allegations. Flowers was caught in a public lavatory with another man.

 

1991: Lord Justice Butler-Sloss (author of the definitive Cleveland report on child abuse) cautioned a Christian 'religious fanatic' who had appealed to see his two children who feared him because of his obsession with Christianity. He had tried to force his strict beliefs on the children and they were frightened of him when he questioned their own beliefs. The judge said "Don't push your beliefs too far or you may lose them forever."

 

1991: Priest allows filming and broadcast of the 'exorcism' of 16 year old girl who is tied down and traumatised with spitting, screaming and retching.

 

1991: Rev Elias Sark convicted of rape and gross sexual imposition on a female parishioner.

 

1991: A Christian religious fanatic whose father had died after drinking strychnine during a service was killed during another church service where attendees were encouraged to handle Snakes.

 

1991: Church Choir tenor and dole fraud investigator Ian MacKenzie, 35, was jailed for four years for sexually assaulting boys aged between 12 and 14. MacKenzie forced them into felatio after making them shackle him with chains and rope and then thrashing him with a horsewhip.

 

1991: Rev. John Stockwell found guilty of kerb-crawling and soliciting prostitutes.

 

1991: Fallen priest Roy Yanke robbed 14 banks and stole 24,000. Yanke admitted spending the money on his obsession with prostitutes.

1991: Church Organist Vincent Smith jailed at Leeds Crown Court for repetitive sexual abuse of a 9 year old boy which extended over a six year period.

 

1991: Priest Norbert LaCosse, sentenced to 15 years for molesting his 12 year old Altar boy, admitted to repeatedly abusing him.

 

1991: Rev G Snow, 38 jailed for sexually assaulting a 10 year old boy. Police found two suitcases filled with indecent photographs of boys and men in Snow's vicarage.

 

1991: 52 yr old Priest pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children aged 13 to 15 in dormitories whilst they slept. He was the second priest to be convicted in the scandal.

 

1991: Evangelist preacher Alan Bradley of Skipton convicted of indecent behaviour. Caught by police after revealing himself to young girls wearing a rubber penis and false breasts.

 

1991: Catholic Priest tape recorded soliciting sex from policewoman. Priest Dominic Candappa (official exorcist) entrapped and arrested between church services on Good Friday.

 

1991: Baptist Minister Ashby Breneman gets 18 yrs for molesting six boys at a Christian Youth Camp he ran.

 

1991: 62 yr old Sunday School teacher sentenced to 10 years for sexually assaulting numerous children who attended Sunday School classes.

 

1991: Baptist Minister Rev. Robert Burton charged after admitting long-term serious sexual abuse of his six and eight year old stepsons.

 

1991: Pentecostal Religious teacher who already had convictions for indecency against chldren was allowed to teach bible classes at a Cornwall church and used his position to sexually assault an 8 year old boy who attended his classes.

 

1991: Minister Alfred Gatehouse 62, sentenced to 10 years for sodomy and soliciting paid sex with teenage girls.

 

1991: Baptist Minister Larry Bernard 45, sentenced to 7 years for molesting a boy of 14.

 

1991: Reverend S Pusateria 40, sentenced to 6 years for criminal sexual assault. He molested his victim repeatedly for over a year.

 

1991: Priest sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 13 year old boy.

 

1991: 51yr old Minister's Wife convicted of inducing a minor in her foster care to engage in sexual intercourse. /care to engage in sexual intercourse.

 

FREQUENCY OF CHRISTIAN RITUAL ABUSE:

 

The S.A.F.F. only began collecting, collating and analysing Sexual Abuse linked with ecclesiastics during 1989 hence the sample of cases grew as our scope and ability to source them increased. The early years are therefore sparse but this reflects the lack of attention so far applied to them. Since 1978 we have logged over ONE HUNDRED convictions of Christian Ritualised Abuse. Compare these DEFINITE cases with the six uncorroborated cases promoters of Satanic Ritualised Abuse have unearthed over the same period and the true nature of both is immediately apparent. The average yearly level of abuse going by our 1989/90 & 91 figures can be considered representational at two dozen cases per year, a shocking figure. We did not collate cases prior to this.

 

The tragedy of the suffering of innocent children in this situation is too miserable to contemplate.

[Angel]

Jeffrey Lundgren, Kirtland, OH, cult led by him killed an entire family, all in the name of god.

 

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murd...en/index_1.html

 

A lady was killed by her husband, the church that they attended are under investigation for having a part in it.

Ashtabula, OH

 

http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general746.html

[boyinasuitcase]

Galileo.

[Guest Unborn Again]

9/11/01 was certainly a religious atrocity. The Jonestown suicides and the Branch-Davidian debacle in Waco, Texas, also count as atrocities. And, since he reminds us of it ever so clearly every now and then, Pat Robertson is a walking, talking religious atrocity.

[godlessgrrl]

The destruction of Goddess religion.

The current Roman Catholic sexual abuse scandal.

The various genocides recorded in the OT.

Conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India.

Destruction of the largest Buddha statues in the world by the Taliban.

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew.

Mormon underwear.

Fred Phelps.

Televangelism.

Roman massacres of early Christians.

Early Christian vandalism of Roman temples.

The general situation of unrest in the Middle East.

 

Hmm. I could have a field day with this one... *:/

 

Edit: yeah, I thought of more:

 

Elizabeth Smart. (Her kidnappers, anyway...)

Tammy Faye Bakker. And Jim Bakker... and Jerry Falwell... and... the list goes on...

The Spanish Inquisition.

Intelligent Design.

16th century England and the various conflicts with Protestant reform.

The conflicts in Northern Ireland.

That freaky guy in Fresno.

 

And the list goes on...

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

-The near destruction of the Gnostics by the Catholics.

-Human scarifices by some pagan (the Aztecs) and monotheistic religions.

-How the Jews were blamed for the Black Death.

-Bloody Mary and Elizibeth's persecution of the Lutherans\Catholics.

-Anyone who beats their children\spouce because their religion tells them to.

[Kryten]

Columbus and his "evangelizing" of Central/South/North American natives. Millions slaughtered-- er, I mean converted. Glory!

[Kryten]

Has anybody ever heard of the Children's Crusades.  Do a google search on this one, you will be amazed.

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Yes! It's amazing more people don't know about that! Someone should make a movie about it.

[Ouroboros]

Giardano Bruno, burned alive for not saying "There are no other worlds.", by the Church, 16th century.

[Guest aexapo]

Yes!  It's amazing more people don't know about that (the children's crusades)!  Someone should make a movie about it.

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OMG!! I didn't know anything about it till this thread . . . horrific.

[SilentLoner]

The female scientist and head of the Alexandria library, Hypatia, who was beaten to death by catholic monks for her "heretic" studies.

 

And all the scientists throughout the centuries murdered and condemmed by xtianity.

[ynotbegoodtoall]

great one!