To be historically accurate, the catholic church only liked to kill its popes and other churches.
What the fuck is this shit. The church conducted brutal campaigns of terror hunting down religious minorities or those accused of heresy and tortured them to extract confessions which they then used to justify more torture. Jews were frequently criminalized and forced out of countries in mass deportations at their own expense. And then there were, oh yeah, the Crusades military campaigns that brought death and destruction even to their own lands as crusaders looted and pillaged wherever they went, in one case even sacking Constantinople who they were supposed to be protecting.
Like yeah I guess “Believe everything we say and defer to our authority and we probably won’t kill you” is technically better than just killing people, but that’s not exactly a high bar.
If you define everyone you feel like doing violence towards as “an other church” then sure, but then the distinction is completely meaningless. Plenty of the examples I mentioned such as the inquisitions were used against people who were longtime, faithful members of the church. No one was safe.
What the fuck is this shit. The church conducted brutal campaigns of terror hunting down religious minorities or those accused of heresy and tortured them to extract confessions which they then used to justify more torture. Jews were frequently criminalized and forced out of countries in mass deportations at their own expense. And then there were, oh yeah, the Crusades military campaigns that brought death and destruction even to their own lands as crusaders looted and pillaged wherever they went, in one case even sacking Constantinople who they were supposed to be protecting.
Like yeah I guess “Believe everything we say and defer to our authority and we probably won’t kill you” is technically better than just killing people, but that’s not exactly a high bar.
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Only one gang is allowed a monopoly on violence.
If you define everyone you feel like doing violence towards as “an other church” then sure, but then the distinction is completely meaningless. Plenty of the examples I mentioned such as the inquisitions were used against people who were longtime, faithful members of the church. No one was safe.