"Wonderful acts to glorify and praise God "

'The history of the Christian Church is written in such a way, that even in their own teachings we can find a grim meaning'. (Hans Wollschlaeger)

All the following events happened either by order, or at least with the consent of clerical authorities, and they were committed in the name of Christianity. This list is nothing but exhaustive:

Heathens of the ancient times: Shortly after Christianity was officially accredited in the year 315, the first Heathen temples were destroyed, for example the sacrilege of Aeskulap in Aegaea, the Aphrodite-Temple in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon or Heliopolis. Up to the 6th century, Heathen preachers were murdered and people, who just had Heathen beliefs, were also killed in their thousands. On the other side, Christian preachers, such as Mark of Arethusa or Kyrill of Heliopolis were rewarded and glorified. From the year 356, onwards, people attending a Heathen ceremony were charged with the death penalty.

The Christian imperator Theodosius (408-450) even ordered to murder children, just because they were playing with the remains of Heathen relics. But according to Christian chronicles at that time, his orders were 'in line with any Christian theory' and he acted well in his 'Christian consciousness'.

In the early 4th century, the philosopher Sopratos was executed by the order of the Christian clergy.

In the year 425, the well known teacher and philosopher Hypataia of Alexandria was dismembered (the leading figure among his murderers was a preacher called Peter), and his remains were dumped into a toilet.

Also in the 6th century, all Heathens were stripped off all their human and legal rights.

The mission:

In the year 782, more than 4500 Saxons were beheaded by the troops of Karl the Great, because they refused to convert to Christianity.

On the 27th of May 1234, the farmers of the North-German village of Steding were massacred by Christian soldiers, because they were simply unable to bear the taxes. This massacre cost between 5500 and 10000 lives of men, women and children. Their land and houses were occupied by dedicated Catholics.

80000 Turks lost their lives in the Battle of Belgrade in the year of 1456.

During the 15th century, 1019 churches and 17987 villages in Poland were ransacked by Christian crusaders, the number of victims is yet unknown.

In the 16th and 17th Century, members of the Church of England invaded Ireland to 'civilize and appease' the Irish, who in their eyes were 'Gaelic Wilds'...'animals without any manners and with no sense whatsoever about God, sharing their wives, children and livestock with anyone else' One of the most well known military leaders, Humphrey Gilbert (a half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh) ordered that all heads of those who were killed at the day, shall be chopped off the bodies and to be displayed on both sides of the road'. In his own words 'the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were), which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies...and should be laied on the ground on eche side of the waie' But this way to 'civilize' the Irish, only led to a state of shock among the Irish, when they saw the heads of friends, family members (even children) lying on the ground. 'Greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, klansfolke and friends on the grounde', to quote Humphrey Gilbert once more. 10000 Gaelic Irish people lost their lives during this murderous spree.

The Crusades (1095-1291):

The First Crusade started in 1095, lead by Pope Urban. During the massacres in Hungary, near Wieselburg and Semlin, which took place between 12/06/1096 and 24/06/1096, more than 1000 people died (either Christians or Crusaders)

Between 09/09/1096 and 16/09/1096 Crusaders besieged the Turkish town of Nikaia and killed more than 1000 residents, even children were hacked to pieces and eaten.

Around 26/09/1096, the German fortress of Xerigordon was captured by Crusaders from Germany.

Overall there were 40 Capitals and 200 fortresses besieged before January 1098, the total number of victims is yet unknown.

On the 3rd of June 1098, the Turkish town of Antiochia was captured by the Crusaders and between 10000 and 60000 Turks were slaughtered. Raimund von Aguilers was quoted as follows: 'The bodies of those who died were piled up everywhere, the stench was too unbearable to stay. Wherever you went, you had to walk over corpses'

28/06/1098: Another massacre in Turkey with another 10000 victims, including women and children. Christan chronicles reported, that the Crusaders not only found precious items, such as 'Books about blasphemous sarazene or turkish rites full of curses', but also 'Women, fragile children and infants; some were killed by the sword, other maimed by the feet of horses. The fields were full of wretched corpses which were torn to pieces'

All of that in the name of God's will.

Another report, dating back to the 11th of December, written by the Christian chronicle Albert Aquensis after the capture of the town of Marra (Maraat-an-numan) where more than 1000 died, reads that, in order to avoid starvation, 'rotten and stinking corpses of the enemies of Christianity were eaten.

On July 15th 1099, Jerusalem was finally captured, more than 60000 lives were lost during just this day: Muslims, Jews, Men, Women, Children. An eye witness reported:'...there...(in front of the temple of Salomonis) was such a massacre, that our own people were walking though pools of blood up to our ankles' And to quote Albert again: 'Women who were looking for refuge in temples, were slaughtered by the sword. Small children, even infants, were kicked away from their mother's feeding breast or taken out of their cradle, and smashed against walls or door entrances' The archbishop Wilhelm von Tyros added: 'Full of joy, crying tears of happiness, our people walked away to praise the tomb of our Lord Jesus and redeemed their holy deeds...but it was not the grim picture of the dead, bodies shred to pieces which was stunning, it was more the image of those who won the battle, drenched in blood from top to bottom, and everybody was just flattered looking at them'. Finally, the Christian chronicle Eckehard von Aura spoke about '... a horrendous stench of corpses all over the country of Palestine being still there in the summer of 1100...' and '...no Heathen ever being aware of this massacre.'

The First Crusade cost the lives of more than half a million people...Thanks to God.


12/08/1099: 'In the name of Lord Jesus Christ', 200000 Heathens were slaughtered during the battle of Askalon

12/04/1204: Fourth Crusade: The Christian (!) town of Constantinopel was ransacked by the crusaders, the number of victims is yet unknown.

Over all, around 20 million lives were lost in the Holy Land and in Arabic and Turkish areas during the remaining crusdades until the fall of Akkon in 1291.

In the 15th century the crusaders went against the Hussites, and once again thousands of victims fell to the Christian insanity.

In 1538, Pope Paul III ordered the crusade against the English renegades, and all English citizens were declared slaves of Rome. Fortunately, this act failed.

1568: The Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered the killings of 3000000 rebellious Dutch in the then Spanish Netherlands. Between 5000 and 6000 Protestants were drowned. 'A desaster unkwown to the people of Emden, until their wide-brimmed hats were floating down the river.

In 1572, Pope Pius V ordered to kill 20000 Hugenottes in France, and up to the 17th century 200000 more of them followed.

Also during the 17th century:

Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Protestants, was killed and dismembered by the mob ('...they beheaded him, cut off his hands, his private parts,...') and thrown into a river ('...but then he was not even worth to be a meal for the fish, so he was taken out of the water. His remains ended up to be fed to the crows and ravens at the gallows of Montfaulcon').

Catholic troops ransacked and destroyed the Protestant town of Magdeburg, killing around 30000 Protestants. The poet Friedrich Schiller was quoted: 'In a single church they found 50 beheaded women and infants, still sucking their dead mother's breasts...'

The 30-Year War (Protestants against Catholics decimated around 40% of the population, especially in Germany.

Note: All these figures are quoted from the tales of the Christian chronicles.

Heretics and Atheists:

The first Christians supposed to be heretics were executed (by other Christians) in the year 385, it were the Spaniard Prisciallian and six of his followers. They were beheaded in Trier. The Manichaeic Heresy: An alleged Christian Sect, the Manichans, who practised birth control and showed more responsibility than devoted Catholics. Between the years of 372 and 444, they were erased out of the Roman Empire during numerous and well organised campaigns. More than thousand lives were lost. The Albigensers (or Katharers), who saw themselves as Christians, but refused to accept the Pope and his ban on contraception, and also refused to pay taxes to the church, were, among other Christians, victims of the First Crusade. Pope Innozenz III, the most cruel mass murderer before Hitler, ordered another crusade in 1209. In the now Southern French town of Beziers, an alleged number of between 20000 and 70000 lives were lost on the 22nd of July 1209. The whole town was destroyed, all inhabitants were killed, including those Catholics who refused to hand over the Heretics.

On the 15th of August 1209, with Carcassonne another town was captured, and again more than thousand victims lost their lives. In the upcoming 20 years of war, almost all the Katharers (which was about 50% of the inhabitants of the Southern French region of Languedoc) were slaughtered, stoned to death or drowned. The last surviving Katharer, Guillaume de Belibaste, was burned on the stakes in 1324.

One million victims alone among the Katharers.

More examples for Heretics were: Waldenser, Paulikaner, Runcarier, Josephites and many more. Most of this sects were eradicated, but there are still some Waldenser alive, as far as I know. To my knowledge, there was a minimum of more than 100000 victims (including the Spanish Inquisition, excluding the New World). 10220 people alone were burnt on the stakes by the order of the Spanish Inquisitor Thomas de Torquemada. In 1415, Johannes Hus, an opposer to the practice of indulgence payments, was burnt on the stakes. On the 20st of May 1527, Michael Sattler, the leader of a Baptist Community, was charged with heresy and burnt on the stakes in Rottenburg/Neckar. His wife and his followers were executed only a fews days afterwards. Also burnt on the stakes were the university-professor B. Hubmaier (1538 in Vienna) and Giordano Bruno, a dominician monk, who was burnt at the stakes of Campo die Fiori on the 17th of February 1600 after seven years in the dungeon.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Scottish Atheist Thomas Aikenhead -a 20-year old student- was hanged by the order of the Clergy.

Witches

Since the early days of Christianity, up to the year 1484, an alleged number of more than thousand witches were executed. During the time of the witche's tribunals -between 1484 and 1750- hundreds of thousands of witches were hanged or burnt on the stakes, about 4 out of 5 were women. A list of all known victims can be found here: 'The Burning of Witches- A Chronicle of the Burning Times / Religionskriege und Reformation'. Of course, this list is everything but exhaustive.

The Jews

As early as the 4th and 5th century, synagogues were burnt down by Christians. The first synagogue was destroyed in the middle of the 4th century, ordered by Innozenz, the bishop of Dertona/Northern Italy. The first synagogue to be burnt down stood near the Euphrat, the bishop of Kallinikon gave the order in the year 388.

The 17th Council of Toledo ordered in 694, that all Jews were declared slaves, their belongings were confiscicated, their children were baptized by force.

In 1010, the bishop of Limoges ordered, that all Jews, who refused to convert to Christianity, were either thrown ot of town or killed

An estimated 12000 Jews were killed at the early stage of the First Crusdade. Most affected were among other towns: Worms (18/05/1096), Mainz (1100 victims, 27/05/1096), and also Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghofen, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Regensburg, outside Germany: Metz and Prague

1147: At the start of the Second Crusade, hundreds of Jews were killed in the Franconian villages of Ham, Sully, Carentan and Rameru

1189/90: During the Third Crusade, jewish communities in England were ransacked.

1235: Jewish men and women were killed in Fulda

1257 & 1267: The Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Lincolc, Cambridge and other towns were eradicated.

1290: In Bohemia, 10000 Jews were supposed to be killed

1337: Mass hysterias caused by antisemitic pogroms, which started in Deggendorf, affected more than 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria and Poland.

1348: The Jews of Basel and Strassbourg were burnt to death (2000 victims)

1349: In more than 350 German cities all Jews were killed, most of them burnt alive. During this particular year, more Jews were killed by Christians, than Christians were killed during hundreds of years of the Roman Empire.

1389: 3000 Jews were slaughtered in Prague [DO42]

1391: Martinez, the archbishop of Seville ordered to kill about 40000 Jews, another 25000 Jews were sold into slavery. Jews also had to wear a coloured 'mark of shame' on their clothes, so that every Jew older than 10 years could be recognized. Here he have the historic origin of the 'David Star', Jews had to wear during the Third Reich.

1492: In the same year, Christopher Columbus set sails to explore a new world, 150000 Spanish Jews were thrown out of the country on the 30st of June, many of them didn't survive the journey.

1648: Around 200000 Jews lost their lives in Poland during the so-called 'Chmielnitzki-massacres.

And it goes on and on like this...I'm getting absolutely sick...Century after Century full of those massacres, straight on towards the ovens of Auschwitz.