: Well back to your original point the Catholic Church has officially apologised for it's role in the crusades and silence at the halocaust.I think reparations from the Catholic Church would be pretty meaningless; the time gone is so great that it's impossible really to track down "culprits"; the reason that WWII can be compensated is that there are are children and grandchildren alive who can be compensated.
In cases like South America, where the vast majority of the indigenous population was wiped out, the question of compensation is impossible, as there aren't as many descendants to the victims as there were victims (i.e. fewer purebred South American Indians exist now than were killed by the Spaniards).
Furthermore, to be fair, God gets used as a convenient deus ex machina (literally!) for the elimination of people the clergy doesn't like (e.g. philosophers, scientists, artists, Lefties and other heretical beings). The Catholic Church is not necessarily qualitatively "more" to blame than any other strain; it's just that Catholicism is the dominant strain of Christianity.
: There maybe links between nationalism and religion but I dont reckon it's the same. All the religions barring buddhism and the oriental pacifist one bare responsibility for religious fervour and evangelical terror. Why are you targetting catholics?
I don't think she was; however, the two Churches Militant (i.e. ones that see war as an acceptable form of converting the infidel) are Christianity and Islam; no-one here is Moslem (as far as I know), so it makes sense to address such comments to Christianity.
(No, Hinduism and Shinto and Judaism don't expressly forbid war, but they make it clear that war and converting people do not go together; a strict Hindu has to be born that way and let's not go into the way to become a Jew; it's too painful to contemplate.)
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