Catholic Church bring Good and Peace in the World

First off, the burden of proof is shared. The burden of proof is on the people trying to prove it is a good or evil organization. Since, we're both arguing that it is a good or evil force, both of us have to meet our burden. Lets start off with crimes against humanity. The Catholic Church in UK sent orphans, 10,000 of them as young as the age of 3, to religious orphanages and institutions in commonwealth countries because it was cheaper to take care of them. The children were then sexually, physically and emotionally abused for 80 years and used as free labor. There was flogging, sexual assaults and murders. the Taiping Revolution: The Guinness Book of World Records calls this the bloodiest civil war. There was an estimate of 20 million deaths. Basically what happened was that the Christians convert Hong Xiuquan. They believe the Taiping leader was chosen by god to establish his Heavenly Kingdom on Earth in Hong Xiuquan. The rebels destroyed imperial culture, smashed religious statues and icons throughout the land. The Inquisition: The inquisition was the suffering of heresy, which is disagreeing with the church or worshipping another religion other than Christianity. It shows the arrogance of the Catholic Church. Let's go over the torture devices shall we? The Judas Chair: large, pyramid-shaped seat in which heretics were placed on top, with a point inserted into their anuses or genitalia and then very, very slowly lowered onto the points with ropes. The effect was to slowly stretch the opening of choice in an extremely painful manner. Head Vice: The heretics would put their in a specially fitted vice and tightened it until their teeth are crushed, your jaw breaks and eventually your eyes pop out. The Pear: Large bulbous gadget that is inserted into the orifice of choice, usually the mouth, anus or vagina. A lever than then causes it to slowly expand while being inserted. Caused internal bleeding. The Wheel: The heretics were strapped on a big wheel and clubbed until their bones shatter. Now, let's go into the execution methods. Sawing: Heretics were hung upside down and sawed apart from the middle, starting at their crotch. Disembowelment: a small hole is cut in the gut, then the intestines are drawn out slowly and carefully, with attempts at keeping the victim alive for much as possible. The Stake: very popular, attached to a stake and burned. Pope Damasus I (366-384): Children and women were bought and sold s sex slaves to increase funding for the church, this was designed by Damasus I. Those who opposed this were tortured, killed and their land seized. Some of the women forced into prostitution were nuns! Pope Urban II (1088-1099): Ordered the slaughter of 10 million heretics where the men, women and mostly children in efforts to procure Belgrade, The Orthodox Church of Constantinople in Yugoslavia, Turkey, Syria, Antioch and Palestine. By the way, Hitler killed six million during the Holocaust. Pope Innocent III: Ordered and aided the death of 1 million people during the papacy of 1198-1216. He even started a crusade against the Albigenes where he ordered his men to butcher them by tens of thousands of horrible ways. Pope Pius XII: Pius XII personally handed Hitler detailed instructions on how the methodical extermination of non-Catholic minorities across all of Europe was to be enacted and how death camps were to be constructed for the sole purpose of their murder. He said heretics couldn't be shot or killed, they had to burned alive. Read Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell. In 1946 he came to the aid of war criminals including Ante Pavelic who was in Croatia and lead the most satanic and murderous regimes in all of history. The group was known as the Croatian Ustashi. Pius XII established his own army called the Catholic Ustashi and that was responsible for the murder of 600,000. Pope John Paul II: Worked as a chemist for I,G. Farben Chemical which was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world and manufacturer of poison gas. The very same poison used with Malathion and Zyklon B, used by Nazi Germany. Pope Gregory IX: he was accused of kidnapping and unlawful restraint for the purpose of slavery. He established three inquisitions in 1242 using false texts of witchcraft. Approximately 650,000 were burned alive. Gregory IX issued papal bull decreeing burning of heretics and other church enemies as standard penalty. This was the first time in human history that burning people alive is made an official law. It's still a law even today. Pope John XXIII: He was charged with repeated incest and of the murder of Pope Alexander V. He was accused of open depravity associated with cannibalism, sex and murder. 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