Most Christians don’t enjoy the Diet
of Worms (1521)
Or any of the history of the Christian
Church because it’s evidence of just how much of it is really
humans deciding and doing things. God hardly enters into it at all.
Sure they would claim that these religious figures of history were
divinely inspired at least as long as what they find attributed to
them could be said to be “good” but when less “divine”
actions, from political maneuvering to expropriation, persecution,
torture or murder are documented, well then the blinders go back on
and the naysaying begins. This is because religion was a source of
power for nobility, - especially royalty.
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Martin Luther is the one history
remembers for his founding of the Lutheran church and the start of
the reformation, or what should be more accurately called the split
in the Catholic Church that led to the spawning of many new sects of
Christianity. Before the “happy” happenstance of protestant
churches dominating and being accepted, back then, Martin Luther was
just another heretic to the Catholic Church, and he was very lucky to
not be caught and executed.
If you look at the history of the
Church of England and the English Reformation, the politics, and
violence are horrifying. All were human activities, not “acts of
God” though I’m sure some saw gods hand in everything. It’s
this history that led to the age of enlightenment and the founding
fathers of the United States came right out of this strife over
religion. Seems history supplanted by “social studies” in
schools doesn’t really touch on these delicate details very much
though.
Time after time, History has shown us
that religion and religious power mixed with governmental power leads
to despotism, persecutions and unnecessary death (all things
incongruous with the tenets of the myriad sects of Christianity).
Hence Science may be #1 on the religious fanatic’s shit list, but
History is a close second.
Expropriations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expropriations
So many Atheists would like to see
religion eliminated,
