Debate: Is Christianity a healthy thing to believe in?
Side: no it isn't

You most certainly are an apologist. You distort history so that it falls in line with your narrow-minded views. You sugarcoat the abhorrant acts of rape, murder and sacrifice in the Bible. You deny the demonstrable bad things that are a result of religion. Of course the Catholic Church condemned it. They had to cover their own arses. If you look at the real history, Pope Pius II stayed silent on the Holocaust for years after it started:“No doubt a protest would have gained me praise and respect of the civilized world, but it would have submitted the poor Jew to an even worse fate.”-- Pope Pius (Rychlak 2000, p270)Numerous religious statements are made in Mein Kampf. Here are just some:"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.""Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."Then there were the private statements:"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."- Adolf Hitler, to General Gerhard Engel, 1941 But perhaps the most damning evidence came from chief Nazi architect Albert Speer, who declared that not only was Hitler a Catholic until death, he also forced chief associates to become Catholic. Hitler also advocated "Positive Christianity" (basically his own batshit, anti-Semetic version of Christianity) and spoke negatively of atheism, comparing it to Bolshevism and communism:"For eight months we have been waging a heroic battle against the Communist threat to our Volk, the decomposition of our culture, the subversion of our art, and the poisoning of our public morality. We have put an end to denial of God and abuse of religion. We owe Providence humble gratitude for not allowing us to lose our battle against the misery of unemployment and for the salvation of the German peasant."Many of the offical policies of Nazi Germany (the homophobia, the outlawing of abortion, etc.) were based on Christian ideas. Here is Article 24 of the German Workers' Party (pre-Nazi term):“We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession...”There is no special critera required to be a Christian. All you have to do is to state that you believe in the Christian God. Hitler did this several times.The origins of anti-Semetism came from German Christian preachers. Martin Luther (considered the founder of Protestantism) set the standard with his book On the Jews and Their Lies, in which he stated that the Jews were:"base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."""full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine,"He also suggested seven actions to be taken:1.for Jewish synagogues and schools to be burned to the ground, and the remnants buried out of sight; 2.for houses owned by Jews to be likewise razed, and the owners made to live in agricultural outbuildings; 3.for their religious writings to be taken away; 4.for rabbis to be forbidden to preach, and to be executed if they do; 5.for safe conduct on the roads to be abolished for Jews; 6.for usury to be prohibited, and for all silver and gold to be removed and "put aside for safekeeping"; and 7.for the Jewish population to be put to work as agricultural slave labor.Lovely.